Student’s Hostel Gowett is located in a prestigious building of the last century, built from the English administrations of Val di Cornia mines.
The property boasts a strategic position that allows visitors to enjoy an enchanting area of Tuscany, where nature and history merge in a stunning landscape.
Today it is a modern Youth Hostel ranging 100 beds available in double rooms and 4/6 bed dorms.
All rooms are ensuite and are particularly suitable for families and school groups.
Situated in the
St. Silvestro Archaeominenary Park, where the homonymous
Medieval Rock and Temperino Mine are set, it is less than 5km far from the seaside of San Vincenzo and Donoratico.
Val di Cornia naturalistic-archaelogical parks (Baratti and Populonia) are easily reachable from the hostel. Close to the hostel you’ll find the
Documentation and Education Centre “ Villa Lanzi” with pili-functional areas, classes, libraries and internet rooms.
Val di Cornia Parks tell the millenary history of the ancient Etruscans and they testify the mining and the metal working over the centuries, also proposing amazing natural landscapes, both coastal and hilly.
Val Di Cornia Parks and the Archaeological Museum of Populonia offer a wide range of advantages for school trips.
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Nature Lovers will find a striking archaeological and naturalistic itineraries of the maquis. Arhaeology lovers will be proposed guided tours around archaeological and medieval areas as well as museums. Enogastronomic tours and wellness break in thermal areas are also available
This stunning corner of the Alta Maremma is a perfect blend of hills covered in mediterranean vegetation and beaches such as the enchanting Gulf of Baratti and Populonia, characterised by sandy dunes, blue sea and high pines.