Lhas Corsica is an island anchored to 12 km of Sardinia, 85 km of Italy, 176 km of Nice and 330 km of Marseilles. Its surface of 9000 km² is composed of 8000 km² of mountains, whose climax is at 2710 meters. The average altitude of the island east of 568 M, it has a littoral of 1000 km, including 200 of fine sand ranges, which makes of it the natural destination par excellence.

      Lhas Corsica was worked by nature there are meadows of 500 million years. The country is divided into two geological units, which correspond to two areas with the very different face: The granitic area hercynienne, and the schistous Alpine area. In the west, the granitic and ryolitic mountain, 5000 km² of rocks generally blazing, sometimes white or reddish, gray or bluish the island is dominated by a central chain at the raised tops, gradually dropping north to the south. In the east, the schistous mountain definitely less low (San Petrone 1767m), is made up of darker rocks, with the soft forms, than the chestnut colonized.

       C' is at the primary era which the granites appeared, that time worked in cavities like Tafoni. The volcanic rocks go back to this time. At the secondary era, the solid mass that form Corsica and Sardinia is still attached to the continent. Then approximately 30 000 years ago, a violent one seism detaches Corsica of the solid mass of Estérel, and Sardinia leaves the solid mass of the Moors.

      WithU quaternary, the tumultuous rivers dig the rock of the island, starts to be worked to take its current aspect. The furrows cut in the granite of the throats of Asco, of Scala di Santa Regina, Spelunca and in glossy schists of Inzecca and Lancone, where curve of the roads literally fixed on the mountain, draw a also wild nature, which it was it to be at the first days of the island.


       WithU Northern of the gulf of Oporto, the peninsula of Scandola, together volcanic old man of 300 million years, is the first reserve of France, (the Gulfs of Oporto and Girolata, the reserve of Scandola, make parties of the Mondial inheritance of UNESCO). The natural reserve of Scandola, shelters species completely disappeared from the continent. It is in the interest to preserve this priceless richness, that the Regional Natural reserve of Corsica, was created in 1972. Creeks (Creeks) of Piana, with the red rocks finely notched by the spray and the wind, with the gulf of Galéria, fenestrates maritime Park, it extends on nearly 330 000 hectares, that is to say two thirds of the total surface of the island. It constitutes a true anthology of the natural beauties: Creeks and ranges, lakes and torrents, fauna (last Ospreys of Europe, eagles of the seas which nests on the rock pitons of the island) and endemic flora. If one adds to that the four natural reserves which account Corsica, the Natural reserve makes of Corsica, a paradise for the in love ones with nature and the hikers.