Bonifacio

more Génoise
cities Corsica.

      Cité of the cliffs, limestone sentinel, Bonifacio, more génoise of the cities Corsica, calls the periphrasis as a beautiful woman calls the compliment.

      Passage tightened between Corsica and Sardinia, the mouths of Bonifacio, strewn with a multidude of islands, offer a space of navigation and stopovers unforgettable. With the southern extrème of the island, draws up the white citadel génoise, whose ramparts protect the town of Bonifacio. The high chalky cliffs of the mouths, cut by the wind and the spray, cause an immense emotion. In 1840, gustave Flaubert on a journey in Corsica said:

"One would not be to say what occurs in you to similar spectacles: I remained a half hour without stirring up, and looking at as an idiot white the broad outline which extended at the horizon... ".

Today still one cannot remain insensitive with the sight of such a spectacle, one of splendours of the Mediterranean. Here all is different, the color of the ground and the sea, the nature of the things, the speech of the men and the women.


       Hautes of more than 60 meters, the white cliffs, striated by erosion in deep wrinkles, are cut out on a hundred meters to give accés to the most extraordinary creek of the Mediterranean. The natural port is inserted with more than 1500 meters inside the grounds, creating a providential harbour with the shelter of the winds and waves.


      CE place which seems makes for the hackers is in charge of history: the "injury of Bonifacio", the oldest trace of human presence in Corsica, lived there here more than 8000 years, with the pre-Neolithic era. Bonifaciens know well the stopovers of St François of base, Charles Quint, Bonaparte; as they remember the memorable seats during which the women nourissaient the defenders of their milk.

       Mboard the mouths can also be accessible. During the summer, navigation appears there one of most beautiful world. It is understood easily that thousands of sailing ships and hundreds of thousands of tourists come to make here trotts it marine of their life. They will set out again with unforgettable memories of this extraordinary site, which would deserve to be classified with the world inheritance of humanity by UNESCO.