Corsica

 

Corsica's main appeal is its scenery: a wildly beautiful landscape of mountains, forest, myrtle-scented maquis, sandy beaches, rocky inlets, wild cliffs and perched villages. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily and Sardinia.

 

  Iles Sanguinaires

P. Colonna d'Istria

   

P. Colonna d'Istria

Rondinara bay

 

P. Colonna d'Istria

Pozzines are holes of clear water among a fairway-like grass.

P. Colonna d'Istria

  Cliffs of Bonifacio

 GOgraph  (c) GDIS

 Cliffs of Bonifacio

BIPS (c) Anne Dautancourt

 

GOgraph  (c) GDIS

Port of Bonifacio

BIPS (c) Jean-Pierre ROUDEIX

Lake

BIPS (c) Anne Dautancourt

 

 GOgraph  (c) GDIS

 Calvi

 

Corte

P. Colonna d'Istria

Bastia

P. Colonna d'Istria

Corsican village and maquis

BIPS (c) Erick Bonnet

Girolata

P. Colonna d'Istria

Melo Lake

P. Colonna d'Istria

 Calanques of Piana :

Creeks situated on the western coast of Corsica, enormous cliffs of pink granite overhanging the Mediterranean Sea, near the Bay of Porto.

 

BIPS (c) Jean-Pierre ROUDEIX

Murato - Church of S. Michele:

The church San Michele of Nebio was decorated in checkerboard with two stones of different colours. It was built in the Middle Age by Pisans (the bishop of Pise governs Corsica in this time).

 Cliffs of Bonifacio

BIPS (c) Anne Dautencourt

 Rocky coasts on the West

 BIPS (c) Anne Dautencourt

Piana

P. Colonna d'Istria

Waterfall

P. Colonna d'Istria

Scandola

P. Colonna d'Istria

Golo

P. Colonna d'Istria

 

P. Colonna d'Istria

Corti

P. Colonna d'Istria

 

P. Colonna d'Istria

Capu

P. Colonna d'Istria

Stazzona

P. Colonna d'Istria

Palaggiu

P. Colonna d'Istria

 Napoleon's statue (corsican)

GOgraph  (c) GDIS

 

GOgraph  (c) GDIS