Corte

crossroads of the valleys
of Restonica
and of Tavignano.

      Top of its headland, in true sentinel, the citadel takes care on the city. With the crossroads of the valleys of Restonica and Tavignano, girded by the highest nodes of Corsica; goes up Rotondo and Assembles it Cintu, Corte is the geographical heart of the island.

      Paradise of the walkers to which it offers various excursion appropriatenesses, the City symbolizes also strong times of the insular history. Old capital of Corsica, Corte constitutes the university and cultural pole today of it.


      The old city, overhung by the citadel built with the XVI ème century, with known to preserve all the charm of a village of mountain. You can visit the single vestige of the civil architecture génoise, Palazzu Nationale, or the government of Pascal Paoli sat of 1755 to 1768. Element impossible to circumvent of the cultural Capital of the island, the museum of Antropologie of Corsica, with found a place of choice in full heart of the citadel, in old rehabilitated barracks. The Douzan gallery, evoking the traditions agropastorales, the customs and habits, as well as a gallery devoted to the social, cultural and economic aspects of contemporary Corsica are supplemented by a record library and a éconothèque.

      With approximately Corte a half time, near Leccia Big shot, the village of Morosaglia shelters the museum Pascal Paoli, which at summer arranged in the native village of the “Father of the Fatherland”, which fought with acharnemant for the independence of Corsica. It presents various objects, memories and documents having belonged to Pascal Paoli.

      Between Corte and Niolo, Scala di Santa Regina, notch of 10 kilometers in the rock, is as bright as a work of art. On the spot, you will not be disappointed by the spectacle.

      For the in love ones with nature and the mountain dwellers, the valley of Tavignano, curves through the maquis and the chestnut groves, the valley is a pleasant place of strolls. It leads, for most persevering, with A Bocca di Arinella with 1592 meters of altitude. The walker will discover old vineyards in terraces there. The throats of Restonica, procession classified since 1966, that one goes up from Corte, opens between two nodes of average altitude, A Punta di U Corbu 802 meters of altitude and A Punta di Zumulu 934 meters of altitude. The motor-road makes it possible to reach the sheep-folds of Grotelle, from where share a driving path with the Capitellu and Mello Lakes, respectively at 1711 and 1968 meters of altitude.