Holidays... The Cerbicales Isles, one of the most beautiful gulfs, Porto-Vecchio [Ph. Desjobert ]

Porto-Vecchio remained for a long time the bad loved of the towns founded by the Genoeses
. The Saint Georges Office built it in 1539 in order to close its island line of defense.

Despite a splendid panorama, the site remained unhealthy, surrounded by marshes which exhaled their putrid breath and their swarms of anopheles.
The paludism decimated a first wave of settlers, then a second, settled in 1546.
The occupying forces put there under house arrest some Corsican, that they had before despoiled of their lands. We can easily imagine these new inhabitants which were full of drive, for they were named volunteers.

In 1564, Sampiero Corso seized the city and entered into an alliance with the Barbary Coasts . The Genoeses called the Spanish for help, who, in autumn, recaptured Porto-Vecchio.

The town hardly known a new expansion until the draining of the marshes by the american troops in 1944. Surpassed by its brilliant competitor Bonifaziu (Bonifacio), it remained for a long time a stopping place for the shepherds, and the place of salt and cork production.

Holidays in Porto-Vecchio - South Corsica

• Visit the town
  • The Genoeses Fortifications
  • The Marina
  • The Saltworks
• The Sailing Harbor
  Regular sea lines permit excursions from Porto-Vecchio and the crossing towards Italy and Sardinia.
  

• The neighborhood of Porto-Vecchio
  • The Point of the Chiappa
  • The Beaches
  • The Castellu d'Aragio
• Sea Excursions
  • Croisières San Antonio
  • The Lavezzi Isles
• Sports
  • Skin Diving
  • Sailing in the Gulf
  • The Rambles around de Porto-Vecchio

For any information contact the Tourist Office