THE SWIMMING POOL AND THE PRIVATE BEACH

The large open-air swimming pool, set amidst the trees and flowers of the hotel garden, provides a pleasant alternative to the beach.
The large private beach of the Hotel Augustus, with its fine sand and wide, open spaces, is one of its major attractions. There is a bar serving drinks and snacks and a buffet lunch served in the beach garden. In the evening the Club House, with its piano bar and restaurant, serves dinner, or just a drink, by candlelight on the beach.

ABOUT FORTE DEI MARMI

Forte dei Marmi is a stylish resort, favoured by the wealthy Florentines and Milanese, with immaculate sandy beaches and elegant villas in tree-lined avenues. Sheltered by the Apuan Alps, it has a consistent climate with excellent bathing. Smart cafés and boutiques may be found in the centre and restaurants are of a high standard. This well known, elegant seaside resort lies on what was once a strip of Mediterranean maquis.The town grew up in the Renaissance period around a quay used for loading marble from the nearby Apuan mountains which was carried to the sea along a road that was built on the suggestion of Michelangelo himself. In 1788 the Grand Duke Leopoldo built the fortress that gives the town its name and is still to be seen in Piazza Garibaldi in the centre.