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Piombino: Piazza Bovio
Piombino: Piazza Bovio Piazza Bovio, Piombino, Italy.

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Piombino, town, Tuscany regione, west-central Italy. It lies at the tip of the Piombino Promontory below Mount Massoncello, on the coast opposite the island of Elba.

Once a possession of the archbishops of Pisa, it was declared a princedom in 1594 and was variously owned or occupied before becoming part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Its Piazza Bovio, standing on a cliff, is one of the finest squares in Italy. Nearby Populonia has Etruscan, ancient Roman, and medieval remains. An old seaport still with significant shipping traffic, Piombino has ironworks and steelworks and provides passenger and car ferry service to Elba; it is connected by branch railway with Campiglia Marittima on the main Rome-Genoa line. Pop. (2002) 80,979.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.