Corse

Corsica, "the island of beauty", with its contrasting colours: blue like the vast sea, dark green like its laricio pines. Ochre like its Genoese towers and red like its creeks...

Corsica, a land of passion. Its lush natural environment changes in the space of a few kilometers from towering mountains to wild beaches or the rocks of the coast. Swim out through the warm, azure blue waters to the anemones and coral reefs.

Cross the ten turbulent torrents, past wild pigs, impentrable scrub, a chestnut forest and, very likely, a baroque church with an exuberant décor inherited from a long-gone conqueror. For Corsica has had an eventful history: it was occupied by the Romans the by the republics of Pisa and Genoa before coming a French territory in 1769.

All of Corsica's invaders have fallen head over heels in love with it, gifting it with the best of their respective cultures and civilisations. It's an established fact: no-one can resist Corsica's charm - and nor will you.

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