One can be satisfied to admire the wonders which this island envoûtante offers to us, but would be to deprive itself of a true meeting with the Corsica people. The Corsicans whom one describes faithful, courageous, humble, hospital, and who dedicate a love without fault with their Fatherland, where, failing to live there, they come to die there and rest there.

      All these values, that the time made ambiguous, find on the island all their significance. The village, in the middle of the island, is for the Corsicans “the origin of the world”, and the family is best cement. The Community spirit évolu and perdure, and the Corsicans show an incredible capacity to be resoldered at the time of ritual, to reaffirm their identity.

      From these habits still very alive an undeniable sadness emerges, which is translated not only in the music, the polyphonic song (melancholic person where festive), the Corsica literature, but also in the everyday life. The Corsica people attach a great importance to the dead one: tombs carefully maintained, often aligned vis-a-vis the sea, and where burns sometimes night and day, a small lamp; black clothing of the women who seem to carry a mourning eternal. Corsica is very Christian and this Christian faith is indissociable ancestral rites and life of the Corsicans. Saints, in particular patron saint of the villages, and the virgin, sponsors whole island, play a considerable part in the practices and the beliefs of the Corsicans. Festivals, processions, pilgrimages, testify to the devotion that one carries to them. Among great religious holidays, any revêt more importance than the Assumption (on August 15), become a kind of national festival. In 1735, for lack of a terrestrial sovereign to install on the throne of Corsica, the chiefs of the national insurrection, chose the queen of the sky in person and the canticle Dio VI salvi Regina like national anthem. The virgin is also celebrated with glare on September 8, day of the nativity.

      The family traditions also remained very long-lived, mainly inside the country: uncontested authority of the father, very acute feeling of the honor, which could cause formerly, of bloody “Vendetta”, but also, admirable direction of the hospitality, which you will not fail to appreciate with his right value.

      If you cannot attend the great festivals of the year: procession of the Good Friday with Sartène (“Catenacciu”), festival of Niolo in the honor of the virgin, fire of Midsummer's Day or Christmas, can be will have you to it chance, in Cargèse, where still an important Greek community saw, to be present at a ceremony of Greek rite…