
Rosignano Solvay: the Tuscan “artificial Caribbean” and the bathing suitability of the White Beaches
The so-called White Beaches They are a stretch of Tuscan coast about 5 km long in the north of Maremma, bathed by the Ligurian Sea, at the centre of long-standing controversies about their suitability for bathing due to their proximity to the Rosignano Solvay industrial plant. The birth of the Solvay factory and village The Belgian industrialist’s company Ernest Solvay ...