Laricio pines several times centenaries, the beeches côtoient.
If since bay of Calvi, you are attracted by this ECRIN of mountain which encloses the city, do not hesitate to take the road, in direction of the airport, which goes up the valley of Figarella. From the terminus, meadows of the inn of Bonifato, borrow the forest track, traced well: it gives access to several stroll clearly marked out, more or less long, which makes it possible to discover valleys with the luxuriant vegetation. By discovering these landscapes, you will understand that Corsica is the greenest island of the Mediterranean, the most sprinkled. Here, silence of mountain is not torn by crash of torrents, contrary to forest of Aïtone, which bears the name of the river which crosses it and descends, of cascades in falls, to its mouth in Oporto.
Aïtone deserves the turning in more than one way. It is made up of beeches but especially, as far as the eye can see, of pines laricios. This coniferous tree with the bark grisâtre is typical in Corsica.
For the beginning of Calvi, it is necessary to cross Galéria and continue until the unforgettable site of Oporto. In spite of the 80 already traversed km, leave the littoral and exceed the village of Evisa, recognized like one of most beautiful of Europe. There the forest of Aïtone opens, with the foot of the collar of Vergio. since the collar, enmpruntez the path on the left which gains the shade of the trees, with a few meters of an immense flat rock. The path crosses a clearing, then after a junction on the line, approaches the river where run of the cascades which are thrown in more or less broad basins. It curves of link in link, spanning the river (1 hour of functioning). In this forest solid mass which covers 4000 hectares, vegetation green, confused, contrast étrangèrement with the back Calvais country.