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Imbued with culture and traditions,
proud and warm as the Mediterranean
people know to be, the Cap Corse stretches away very gently towards
the Gulf of Genoa.
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The weather and the elements, in their
common movement, have shaped
there an authentic land, a platform for picturesque villages.
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No one can remain insensible to the
charm of this 40 kilometres long and about 15 Km wide headland,
that is lined-up by a succession of golden beaches and vertiginous
drops.
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that are nestling among the rocks, testify here and there to the maritime
vocation that the Cap Corse has received in its first mornings. |
The marines, built on the waterfront, in the wake
of the old villages, open onto the horizon, it is a view of a rare
beauty.
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The imagination allows to still
see the ships with their imposing sails, that sailed
in the past towards the Genoese trading post.
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The tortured and contrasting geography of the Cap
Corse unfolds by the coastal road, from Bastia or Saint Florent.
From East to West, this peninsula offers two profiles. |
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The eastern coast with its smooth relief and
valleys opened onto the Tyrrhenian Sea. |
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The western slopes whose villages
that are perched on imposing rocky peaks, seem to defy the time..
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A multitude of churches, convents,
and other monuments, testify to a very rich past as the ...
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thirty two watchtowers, that were settled strategically
in order to avert the invasions. |
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