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Great Bastia
Bastia, Cap Corse, Nebbio, Saint Florent
Founded in 1378 and old capital of the island, Bastia, now capital of High Corsica, has the charm of the old Mediterranean cities with its lanes bordered of high houses. Discover the various animated and coloured places of life: Place Saint Nicolas, Place of the Market, Old port.
Saint Florent, this small marina, is very with the mode: night life, celebrities playing game of bowls, coffee terraces where it is good to be posed.
The wild and abrupt Corsica Cape is initially a ground of sailors and fishermen. Discover small so picturesque fishing ports like Erbalunga and Centuri or the village of Nonza with its Genoese watchtower.
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Balagne
Calvi, Ile Rousse, galeria, Ostriconi
Called, the “garden of Corsica” thanks to his fertile hills, Balagne is still called “holy” so much it has religious buildings.
The immense bay, its beach of five kilometers, the line of the mountains in bottom, and the walls of the citadel which advance in the sea, make of Calvi and its marina one of the places more appreciated of Corsica.
Ile Rousse is the other seaside resort of the coast, its name comes from the red rocks of Lille of Pietra, just in the north of the city.
Inside, a mutitude of villages in balcony are as much of goal of excursions in a luminous nature.
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Corsica Centre
Corte, Venaco, Niolo, Bozio, Asco
Corte, capital of the “government of the Corsican nation” of Pascal Paoli, from 1755 to 1769, is in the kernel of the Corsica history. it is there that was voted the Corsican constitution which made the admiration of Europe of the Lights. Built on a rock dominated by a citadel, the upper town does not miss character with its old residences bordering of the paved lanes of rollers. The Corsica Center, is also a ground of mountains, valleys and torrents, which is a true paradise for the excursion. It is finally, a ground of shepherds, who prepare tasty cheeses of ewe and goats.
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Oriental Coast
Costa Serena, Costa Verde, Castagniccia
Immense beaches on nearly 60 km, and behind hills and mountains full with freshness and shade, it is all the Eastern Coast, ground of big spaces.
Discover Aléria and its tormented history, built by Phocéens at the VI century before JC, and occupied in turn by the Etruscans, the Carthaginians and the Romans, the city will be finally destroyed by the vandals with V century.
On the littoral, in addition to the beaches without end, the great agricultural domains produce clementines, kiwis, and wines of quality to be tasted with fish and seafood of the aquicultural farms.
Inside the grounds, deep forests, in particular the chestnut grove of Castagniccia planted in 1854 by Genoa, it often saved Corsica of the famine.
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West Corsica
Porto, Piana, cargese, Sagone
With its littoral bordered of plunging red granite cliffs in a sea of an intense blue, the Gulf of Porto deserves well its classification by UNESCO with the “inheritance of humanity”.
To north, the peninsula of Girolata, accessible only to foot or by sea, offers a fantastic landscape born of the convulsions of an volcanic eruption.
Porto, accessible seaside resort, is famous for its sunset.
More in the South, The "Calanches de Piana", astonishing granitic sculptures, transfering orange or red according to the hours.
And lower, Cargèse, a locality known to have accommodated, in 1676, a Greek colony taken refuge in Corsica. Its two churches, orthodoxe and Latin face to face.
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Great Ajaccio
Ajaccio, Porticcio, Bastelica, Bocognano
It is initially a unique site, the town of Ajaccio, capital of the South of Corsica, takes shape in the middle of one of the most beautiful gulfs of the world, on a back of mountains covered with snow until spring.
Ajaccio, it is especially, the imperial city, the name of the streets, the statues, the monuments, all points out the memory of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was born in the family residence, on August 15th, 1769.
The southern bank and its famous seaside resort of Porticcio, are a priviligié place where all encourages with the escape: tally natural, water sports and night animation.
The back country offers the beautiful ones stroll towards the valley of Prunelli, the chestnut grove of Bastelica, the plate of Eze, the Lake Tolla and Bocognano.
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Great Valinco
Propriano, Taravo, Olmeto, Sartene
Maybe it is the territory of the origins of Corsica with very many sites prehistoric, and remainders of castles dating from the time of the Lords. Valinco also provided to the XIX century a framework for novels, of which in particular “Colomba” of Prosper Mérimée.
Propriano is a balneal city in the middle of the Gulf which is so deep and so calm that a lake would be said and who presents a succession of splits and beaches from Porto Pollo to Roccapina.
The valley of Taravo, which lived a long time at the rhythm of the harvests, the grape harvest, the collecting of sweet chestnuts and olives, and of transhumances keeps an agricultural and pastoral strong identity.
Finally Sartene, “Corsican of the Corsican cities”, on its escarpées granite cliffs.
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Extreme South Corsica
Bonifacio, Porto Vecchio, Bavella, Solenzara
Here in the extreme south, the Corsican mountain finishes in the sea in an apotheosis of beaches, splits and small islands.
Certain beaches of Porto Vecchio, like Palombaggia and Santa Giulia are among most famous and the beautiful ones of the island.
All in the south, perched at the cliff top impressive of limestone, here Bonifacio, exceptional site, more visited of Corsica.
Solenzara, is a pretty marina, with a river favourable with the canyoning. Lastly, the solid mass of Bavella offers a sumptuous spectacle but also excursions which lead to sources, lakes, plates and mounts.