Leisure and Activities

Events

Various local and regional events:

Festival of the nights of the guitar in Patrimonio, Porto Latino Festival in Saint Florent, lyrical and classical music, polyphonic songs, wine routes, temporary art exhibit, wine fair, visiting historical places, music festival, museum and Conservatory, archaeological sites ...

• Guitar Nights Festival
• Porto Latino

Saint Florent

Nestled in a beautiful bay, the small fishing village of Saint Florent has evolved over the years into a famous sea resort and boats come boaters anchor in its beautiful marina.

Doors of the square is the busiest center, overlooking the old city tightened around the church of Santa Maria Assunta, the "cathedral" Nebbiu. Romanesque style, it is built in blocks of white limestone, which temper the austerity of its architecture.

The Genoese citadel overlooks the harbor and its long pier where tourists wander.

Bastia

At the door of Italy, of which it is distant only 70 km, Bastia is more than any other Corsican town marked by the imprint of Genoa, with its baroque facades, its blue slate roofs and its majestic towers.

Busy and gray towards the south, which are staged popular Lupino suburbs, it becomes residential to the north, where the bourgeois buildings beyond the Cap Corse!

In the center, the old town steeped in history has retained its cobbled alleys, doorways, baroque churches, old buildings with leprous facades and dilapidated shutters, its clotheslines tized through the streets.

Calvi

Often amid high snowy mountains, set on a glassy sea, the citadel overlooks its haughty gray mass and a teeming marine world and a huge beach with perfect curve, shaded by a pine forest.

In a setting of palm trees and prickly pears, tall houses with balconies laden with plants, comprehensive machine above the cobbled streets, shady squares make up a rosy picture.

L'Ile Rousse

Rather seaside resort, Ile Rousse is named after the red granite islands that extend its pier.

It was a small fishing village where Pascal Paoli decided in 1758 to make it a rival port of Calvi. Port, join the island of La Pietra and the lighthouse where we discover the neighboring islands.

Porto Vecchio

Before becoming the "city of salt" and the first resort of Corsica, Porto Vecchio was the last citadels established by the Genoese.

A narrow road climbs through the olive trees to the old town. Of the ancient citadel, there remains only the fortifications, five bastions and the Genoese door where the view extends over the port and salt marshes.

PortO

World-famous seaside resort of Porto lost count its hotels and campsites ... This is but a hamlet of the mountain village of Ota, where the winters can experience the atmosphere of the countryside.

Patrimonio

The vineyards that surround the town have a solid reputation in the world. The place is ideal for enjoying the local production of white, red, rosé and muscat, and solicitations are not lacking. visit the cellars and taste the local wines.

Not to be missed at the end of July, "Les Nuits de la Guitare" Patrimonio.

Corte

Center island, wild as the mountains that surround it, Corte was the source of all island revolts.

Far from the sea, harbors and beaches, it still claims its place as capital. Built at 1100 meters altitude in the middle of a ring of mountains, Corte hassle in Sartène the title of "most Corsican of Corsican towns".

Murato

The church of San Michele, 1 kilometer from Murato.

This Romanesque building from the twelfth century plays subtly color card with its polychrome marble walls, green, pink, yellow and white.

Nonza

The houses with tiled roofs cling to the black cliff, pressed against each other, along the steep streets and stone stairs.

A steep path carved staircase down to the beach that overlooks a tower, teetering on the edge of the cliff.

Centuri

First fishing port of Cap Corse. This ancient Roman city deserves the title of "most beautiful marine" which awarded him willingly.

SanT Antonino

The Eagle's Nest is reputed to be the oldest village of the island, the eleventh century, and was a refuge for farmers in the region whenever the Barbary sails were in sight.

Balanced on a rock 500 meters high, surrounded by rough pasture, he remained totally authentic, with its narrow stone alleys coltsfoot, its archways and tall houses with ocher rock.

Vescovato

Small capital of Casinca, Vescovato place of narrow alleys stairs where crowding and severe high houses, which seem poised on the edge of the ridge.

The baroque church of San Martino contains a beautiful white marble tabernacle.