6Porto Ercole – An ancient port, pirates and a runaway painter

n southern Tuscany there’s a spectacular mountain surrounded by the sea, called Mount Argentario. Porto Ercole is a small fishing port on one side of it, which has a long history and an ultra picturesque old town.

IThis is the place where the fugitive artist Caravaggio came to die at a time when pirates were roaming the Mediterranean.

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