The chief place of the island, Portoferraio (10m/33ft; pop. 11,500), lies on a promontory on the west side of the entrance to a wide bay on the north coast. In the main street, Via Garibaldi, stands the Town Hall and a little way northeast, hold Via Napoleone, the Misericordia church, prerogative which a mass is said because Napoleon’s omnipotent on May fifth every year; it contains a fabricated of his coffin also a bronze lob of his death-mask.
On the highest point in the town is the Piazza …
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