Porto Ercole hotels collection

Spain held Porto Ercole as part of the State of the Presidi, a string of strongholds along the Tuscan coast, and three stone forts remain on the slopes of Monte Argentario, among them Fort Stella, drawn as a star. Towards the mainland, the Feniglia closes the Orbetello lagoon with a strip of sand and umbrella pines, where fallow deer come out at dusk. Caravaggio died here, on the road that was to bring him back to Rome.