Corsica: Island of Beauty

Presentation

Baptized "Kallisté" ( the most beautiful ) by the Greeks, Corsica seal the union between the sea and the sun. The island offers a sample of all the landscapes and the panoramas which you can discover worldwide: mountains top-covered with snow , creeks where we could already bathe, the corsican "maquis", the "calanques", the "needles", the desert... In Corsica, everything is only source of pleasure and invitation in the journey...

Main towns : Ajaccio, Bastia, Corte, Porto-Vecchio, Bonifacio, Calvi, Île Rousse

Surface areas : 8569 sq.kms.

Population : 260 000 inhabitants

Particularity :The Genoese towers, set up from the XVIth century, are the inheritance of the occupation of the island by the Italian Republic. These constructions, there remains about sixty today, classified for the greater part as "Ancient monument", they are spreaded along the island coast and are one of the symbols of Corsica.