Best Restaurants in Forte dei Marmi

Forte dei Marmi sits on the Tuscan coast at the foot of the Apuan Alps — between Pisa and the Cinque Terre, with a five-kilometre run of fine-sand beach and a backdrop of marble-quarry mountains that have produced the marble for every major Italian sculpture from Michelangelo's David onward. The town has been the summer dinner address of Milanese aristocracy since the 1920s and of Russian oligarchs since the 1990s; the village holds about 7,500 year-round residents and trebles in summer.

The dining is the densest Michelin-starred concentration on the Italian Riviera — five Michelin stars across four kitchens within the village proper. Lorenzo holds one star and is the institutional anchor (since the early 1980s, Marcello Tori running it for forty years); Bistrot holds another (Andrea Mattei, seafood); La Magnolia holds a third at Hotel Byron (Cristoforo Trapani, modern); Lux Lucis holds a fourth at Principe Forte dei Marmi (Valentino Cassanelli, with a rooftop view of the Apuan Alps); Sciabola at St. Mauritius Hotel rounds out the cluster.

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