“… I prefer to ignore these hasty visitors,
Whose scum is lost along my reefs
But for that which flees the clamour, the transitory one,
Very quickly I become a woman, a mother… “
(extracted from “Corsica” of Aristide Nerrière)

Can be some among they already had you the privilege to spend their holidays to Corsica. But for those which were not likely yet to pose the foot on so picturesque Corsica, if attaching, the pages which will follow, will give them an outline of the beautiful voyage which they will be able to make by visiting “KALLISTE”, most beautiful.

      Corsica is “the island” among the islands. She astonishes by extraordinary diversity by the landscapes, her mountainous solid masses forming a natural wall, like protecting it, her ranges of fair sand, her fauna and her flora exceptional. Corsica has the most beautiful shores of the world. One completely includes/understands the reason for which the Greeks, large experts in island and beauty, baptized it “Kalliste”, most beautiful. The Corsicans are conscious of having a single littoral, and the attachment which they carry to their ground, preserved the shores of the island, a wild urbanization and often badly controlled, as on certain coasts of the Mediterranean. Each shore of the whole of the 1047 kilometers single Easts coast. They if are varied that it is enough to make a few kilometers, to pass from the large granitic escarpments, with the imposing ranges, of cliffs at the coasts lagunaires. All this variety of landscapes offers splendid sites, where all is in harmony; courses, bays, gulfs, small splits, interminable ranges, littoral ponds, etc… This diversity represents a true anthology of the natural beauties, which offers to us the Corsica littoral.

      The other characteristic of the island, is the richness of its sea-beds. They represent an anthology of the most beautiful funds of the world, with for example the herbaria of Posidonies of the Lavezzi islands, with broad of Bonifacio, classified natural reserve. One can add to it the coral plates, the multicoloured caves, populated anfractuosities of mérous and starfishes. The Corsica littoral has been a sumptuous inventory of the natural, rich and fragile inheritance, protected for more than twenty years, thanks to the creation of natural reserves, (Scandola, Finocchiarola, Cerbicales, Lavezzi and the pond of Biguglia).

      The coasts of Corsica, are marked out of quatre-vingt-onze “stone sentinels”. Built by the republic of Genoa as of the XVI ème century, they ensured the safety of the littoral of the island. Between Bastia and Saint-Florent, the Cape points his finger in direction of the continent. It is by the sea, which comes without respite to attack its shores, that came formerly the danger from the Sarrasines raids. The principle of alarm consisted in lighting a fire at the top of the building. With the signal, seen with miles by the guetteurs of the close towers, another fire was lit, and in 1 hour, all the island was thus informed of the imminent danger. Today, even if fires do not illuminate any more the night, the turns are the dumb witnesses of other times…