There are two towns in Piombino that live side by side. The first has the asemblance of a normal Italian coastal town, with a small historic center, an old castle, the waterfront, and a beautiful square that looks toward the nearby island of Elba. The second is a town of smokestacks, towers, rails, blast furnaces and abandoned spaces, lots of them. The various industries that populate the city are now smaller than the great glories of the past, but they continue to occupy an area equal to that of downtown Piombino. And so hectares and hectares that once produced tons of steel a day are now nothing more than graveyards of sheet metal. Places taken away both from the profit of large companies and, above all, from the citizens, who should be the true owners of those places. Piombino is a city invaded by industry that has been in crisis for 30 years. The city of industries has and has had as many names, as many as the masters that have followed over the years: Lucchini, Ilva, Italsider, Tenaris Dalmine, Magona, Liberty, JSW, Severstal', Cevital. Names that are as familiar to the inhabitants of Piombino as the names of streets and squares found in all the cities of Italy. Piombino, despite itself, is synonymous with industries. Piombino is synonymous with steel.