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If the human presence in Corsica is estimated at -10 000 before J-C and that one finds traces of proto-Corsican civilization towards -5 000 before J-C, the Casteddu of Cucuruzzu dates him from the age of old bronze (1 800 before J-C). It is one of the biggest and imposing fortifications of Corsica, abandoned by …
The city of Aleria was founded by the Phoceans in 565 BC under the name of Alalia, then the Etruscans and the Cartagenes followed. In 259 BC, the Romans took the city and changed its name to Aleria. For almost seven centuries, it was the heart of the Romanization of Corsica, serving as a strategic …
The Castellu d’Araghju is a prehistoric site built by the Torreans, a civilization present in Corsica in the second half of the 2nd century BC (Bronze Age).The access to this site is by a pedestrian path a little bit steep but very pleasant and the view of the Castellu on the gulf of Porto-Vecchio is …
The submarine Casabianca commanded by Captain Jean L’Herminier escaped the scuttling of the fleet at Toulon on November 27, 1942. He took an active part in the resistance and in the liberation of Corsica, in particular on March 10, 1943 in the bay of Favone after a failed attempt at Canella. There he recovered two …
In the 14th century, the Genoese decided to move the residence of the governors from the site of Biguglia, which was very exposed to external attacks, to a rocky promontory located above a fishing village (Portu Cardu) where they built a bastion and then surrounded it with a citadel. It then developed from this bastion …
The Excelsior cinema opened in 1958. Today, Jacqueline Orsier, the daughter of the founders, runs this unique paradiso cinema. Indeed, it is just after the war that her parents, Jean and Jeanette Bouis, made known the 7th Art in Corsica first with a travelling truck and the projection of films on a white sheet then …
