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Holidays in Corsica ‹‹
The Castagniccia
The Eastern Coast
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| The Cialambella of the
Goatherd |
Tolle in Castagniccia
[Ph. Desjobert] |
It is always with respect and gravity that we evoke
this "country" in itself, this almost mythic land, this birthplace
of the corsican history - The Castagniccia -.
The chestnut tree - breadfruit tree - and its fruit,
the chestnut that some call "the urchin of earth" have been
the foster parents of this region which was renowned to be the richest
of Corsica until the last century.
"As long as we have chestnuts,
we will have bread" said to its compatriots Pascal Paoli, child of
the country, whose museum of Morosaglia, its native village, of which
it today honours the memory.
It is without a doubt the baroque churches and
their works of art of the Castagniccia which the best attest its past
richness: St Pierre - St Paul de Piedicroce, the campanile of La Porta,
the polychromes of Carchetu or of Piazzole, the paintings of Campana.
Dominated by this immense forest with its undulating
green, next to the picturesque and smiling Casinca, the eastern plain
very near streches between Bastia and Solenzara.
Strange and endearing landscape punctuated with
eucalyptus that this long and low land where grow plenty lemon trees,
Algerian tangerine trees, kiwi trees, or vines which are very near from
the lagoons or from ponds bearer of dreams: the Nature Reserve of Biguglia
and its remarkable ecological interest, the Ponds of Diana and Urbino
whose calm waters allow to breed mussels and oysters as at the time where
Romans were there very near, in Aleria, the capital of Antique Corsica.
Towns and Villages
- The Archeological Site of Aleria
- Alesani
- Cervione
- Loretto di Casinca
The time and space join on the cliff of Loreto, the highest village
of the Casinca. From the church, in clear weather, the Pond
of Biguglia is visible and, even sometimes, the italian coast: Tuscan
is there, within sight reach. A bridge sets up between the Casinca,
beautiful and a little known, and the eternal Italy. [ extract of Terres
de Corse ]
- Orezza, Morosaglia, Piedicroce
On the borders of the Casinca is the native village of Pasquale
Paoli, Morosaglia. The corsican hero remains there for the eternity,
him, who knew how to give the isle a glorious fate. This land of Corsica
carries with it a great triangle: Morosaglia, Orezza and Piedicroce.
It holds the big decisions of this people which endowed itself of a
dearly acquired name. Within the convent of Orezza which is a village
renowned for its waters, the delegates of the " Terres des Communes"
which, under the aegis of Sambuccio d'Alando, took up the fight against
the occupying Genoese meet. [ extrait Terres
de Corse ]
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