Composed of cliffs in the West and ranges in the East, the “finger” of Corsica is a small country of mountains and rocks, greenery and sun. In making the turn starting from St-Florent is an enchantment, villages perched, marine, ranges, terrace cultivation, the Cape tells with each step the history of Corsica.
On the card, one day can appear sufficient to loop the turn of this “crowned headland” as indicates it people from here. Although it measures only hardly 40 kms length on 12 kms broad, it will be necessary to devote to your visit of the Cape, 2 to 3 days.
After the Gulf of St-Florent, and the beautiful village of Patrimonio on the slopes of Nebbio, planted famous vineyard, the Corsica Cape really begins with the marines from Farinole, Negru and the extraordinary site of Nonza. The village, hung on the first slopes of Stello and surrounded by its hamlets, is the old stronghold of Avogari di Gentile, big family from Genoa dice the end of the XII ème century, and which shared the Cape with Ansaldo da Mare. Two large buildings are classified historic buildings. The Holy-Julie church, of the name of the young Christian woman of the village martyrized into 303.
She contains a superb furnace bridge baroque out of polychrome marble, carried out with Florence in 1693. The other classified building is the tower known as Paoline or turn of Nonza. It was built only in 1760 on the vestiges of the castle of Gentile; but dice 1768, it became famous for the exploit of Jacques Casella who, only in the tower, resisted to the 1200 men of Marbeuf. In Nonza, apart from its old convent of Franciscains, going back from the XIII ème century and which recently were used as workshop in Leone Fini, of its Sainte-Marie vault, its sheep-folds to the place says Viaccava, to its harbour stores, it is necessary to stop and drink the water of Stello to the Holy-Julie fountain which bears, like the church, the name of the heroin of the village.
At the exit of Nonza towards North, D80 traverses in cornice the Western shore of the Cape. It makes alternate the clear and bluish horizon of the sea, the luminous visions on the marines, the darker spectacle of the covered mountain of the maquis, the filaments of water emerging of the minicomputer-valleys. Here and there, a Génoise tower, generally of the XVI ème century, circular, with a girded terrace of machicolation, recalls the attempts at unloading of Barbaresque to take water and possibly men and women.
It is absolutely necessary to stop in Canari. One can throw a last glance with the asbestos mine closed in 1996. But the chiefs of works of Canary, apart from its natural beauty, are its Romance church of Pysane style, its convent of the XVI ème century, its brotherhood Holy-Cross with her paintings on vaults, its castle and a very rare monument with the Cinnamon navy: a tower with fires of Roman epoch.
More in North, the small villages in conches of greenery have marvellous “inventories”. In Barrettali, it there with the San-Pantaleone church, the Saint-Guillaume vault, the convent of the servites, the tomb of the Altieri family, the mégalithyque site. In Pino, the Sainte-Marie church, the vaults St Lucia and Saint-François, the Piccioni castle, the tomb of the same name. And that to say of Centuri, small so picturesque port, with a church and not less
than five vaults, windmills, whose mulinu vecchio or Mattei mill celebrates it, and the Marcantoni palate. Thus starts the coastguard path which carries out on the coast of Agnellu, vis-a-vis the island very close to Giraglia or to Gorgona.
It is necessary to stop a little on the Santa-Maria range and to take pains it to observe the tower génoise Santa-Maria the chiapella.
The descent towards Bastia offers a succession of ranges, View-points on the sea, of navy and minicomputer-valleys. From Miomo, the ranges are attended, denser circulation, we approach Bastia, the large metropolis.
Greeting 
Hirings Corsican
On the card, one day can appear sufficient to loop the turn of this “crowned headland” as indicates it people from here. Although it measures only hardly 40 kms length on 12 kms broad, it will be necessary to devote to your visit of the Cape, 2 to 3 days.
She contains a superb furnace bridge baroque out of polychrome marble, carried out with Florence in 1693. The other classified building is the tower known as Paoline or turn of Nonza. It was built only in 1760 on the vestiges of the castle of Gentile; but dice 1768, it became famous for the exploit of Jacques Casella who, only in the tower, resisted to the 1200 men of Marbeuf. In Nonza, apart from its old convent of Franciscains, going back from the XIII ème century and which recently were used as workshop in Leone Fini, of its Sainte-Marie vault, its sheep-folds to the place says Viaccava, to its harbour stores, it is necessary to stop and drink the water of Stello to the Holy-Julie fountain which bears, like the church, the name of the heroin of the village.
It is absolutely necessary to stop in Canari. One can throw a last glance with the asbestos mine closed in 1996. But the chiefs of works of Canary, apart from its natural beauty, are its Romance church of Pysane style, its convent of the XVI ème century, its brotherhood Holy-Cross with her paintings on vaults, its castle and a very rare monument with the Cinnamon navy: a tower with fires of Roman epoch.
than five vaults, windmills, whose mulinu vecchio or Mattei mill celebrates it, and the Marcantoni palate. Thus starts the coastguard path which carries out on the coast of Agnellu, vis-a-vis the island very close to Giraglia or to Gorgona.
