Throughout the years, festivals, events, and fairs are held throughout the Corsica including jazz festivals – humour – wind – nautical sports, guitar’s nights, polyphony’s meets, meetings of the Italian cinema, European festival of cinema, meetings of comic strip, turn of Corsica automobile, fairs of pork – the donkey – the new Olive – Cheese – Wood – Honey – and wine and among others.

In a strategic location in the middle of the Mediterranean area, Corsica has excited the envy of the powers of the region. Prehistoric vestiges of Filitosa or Cucuruzzu to the Roman establishments of the plain of Aléria, Genoese occupation to struggle for independence of Sampiero, the island has seen many rulers that mark the landscape, of megaliths in Genoese towers. It is this past which makes Corsica a sanctuary of memories for the history of the Mediterranean.

The Corsican gastronomy is closely related to the main local products namely the culture of sweet chestnut and citrus fruits, pork meat, the milk and cheese of ewe, like that of goat.

Traditionally mountain cuisine while fishery products have become more important, thanks to the Corsican tradition of oyster and mussel culture inherited from the Romans. There are two types of Corsican olive oils, the one is green oil, and it is produced in December and January, from young trees and olives at the start of maturation. The other is yellow oil, suitable for the Corsican culture; it is made from olives collected under the centenaries trees around the month of May.

Of the mountain into the sea that is Corsica, the cape stands out as an outgrowth tapered. Sort of finger pointing towards the north, it seems to defy the sea, which encloses the monitor off the Tuscan islands, with Capraïa, the “island of goats”, ephemeral conquest of Corsica in Pascal Paoli time.

By its direct silhouette that punctuates, such a point on an i, the small island of Giraglia, it opposes to the relief of the remainder of the island, inviting to folding up, the sign of a search of other horizons.

Defeated, the Corsican capes were in the field of the remote expatriation, of precursors. Familiar with the sea, unlike the other islanders who, during ages, defied themselves some by fear of the invaders, they fed a current of emigrants which went from the sixteenth century towards the Caribbean, mainly Puerto Rico, and won Argentina and Venezuela in the nineteenth.

The modern handicraft industry developed in Corsica, driven by the federation of craftsmen of art, whose objectives are to promote the revival of traditional techniques and to provide leadership and an activity to the interior depopulated villages.

The craftsmen market their selected production themselves in the houses of craft industry “the case di artigiani” and the stores and workshops with the sign “corsicada”. The “houses” in artisanal nature offer gastronomical specialities resulting from a local production of quality: honey, nougat, jam with myrtle or citron and amongst other things.

In a strategic location in the heart of the Mediterranean, Corsica has excited the envy of the powers of the region. Prehistoric vestiges of Filitosa or Cucuruzzu in the Roman establishment of the plain Aleria, the Genoese occupation to struggle for independence of Sampiero, the island has seen many rulers that mark the landscape, megaliths in Genoese towers. It is this past that makes Corsica a sanctuary of memories for the history of the Mediterranean.

The tourist attractions of Corsica are undoubtedly based on its natural heritage. With these sites and nature reserves, its international marine park, and the Regional Natural Park which stretches over one third of the island, Corsica remains a largely preserved Island.

With more than 2000 botanical species, Corsica will dazzle you with colors.

The five natural reserves of Corsica protect a unique flora and fauna and the natural reserves are Cerbicale Islands, sanctuary of the crested Cormorants, the Lavezzi islands, where 68 species of fishes have been identified, the islands Finocchiarla, Scandola, first in France to reserve both terrestrial and marine and Biguglia pond where 127 species of nesting waterfowl.

Spring full of flowers loaded with some perfumes of maquis, delightful autumn where they celebrate the chestnut in the high-perched of the villages, it is good to discover Corsican nature in all seasons.

Besides being an island, Corsica is a mountain that allows throughout the years, the practice of numerous leisure activities.

For lovers of leisure like running water sports: kayaking, canyoning, rafting or simply swimming in rivers.

For nature lovers, excursions in all kinds: hiking, horse riding, mountain biking, quad, and 4X4, among other rackets. Along footpaths and dedicated to the discovery of sets and whose colours and light vary from one season to another.

The lovers of nautical sports are not in rest either: harmoniously distributed, sailing clubs, diving and cruise departures offer a wide variety of activities.

The tourist attractions of Corsica are based undoubtedly on its natural heritage. With these classified sites and natural reserves, its international marine park, and its Regional Natural Park which stretches over more than one third of the island, Corsica remains a widely protected island.

With more than 2000 botanical species, Corsica will dazzle you with colors.

The five natural reserves of Corsica protect a unique flora and fauna and the natural reserves are Cerbicale Islands, sanctuary of the crested Cormorants, the Lavezzi islands, where 68 species of fishes have been identified, the islands Finocchiarla, Scandola, first in France to reserve both terrestrial and marine and Biguglia pond where 127 species of nesting waterfowl.

Spring full of flowers loaded with some perfumes of maquis, delightful autumn where they celebrate the chestnut in the high-perched of the villages, it is good to discover Corsican nature in all seasons.

Protected by Sanguinaires Islands, Sentinels of red porphyry in the north and by the Capo di Muro in the south, the Gulf of Ajaccio, describes a wide curve of more than 90 km long.

Ajaccio is the head of the department of Corsica and the southern prefecture of the region. Houses have been built around the “mini golf” delimited by the citadel to the west and the tip of Porticcio southeast.

The “imperial city” called Ajaccio, which saw the birth of Napoleon, enjoys a climate whose leniency is renowned.

It is necessary to carry out the ritual walk on the Napoleon course, in the twilight, to seize the relaxed rhythm of life in Ajaccio, while the harbour becomes lively; the Mediterranean heat becomes blurred and while the harmonious colors of facades take the relief in the shaving light of the gulf.

Valley of Tavignano, whose walls are tightened as it gains altitude, leads to the site of Corte, where it joins that of Restonica, celebrates not only for its trout’s, but also for its decoration of crowned rocks of pine forests and for the alternation of its bubbling (hot) water and its basins to the alleviated floods.

If you look back over this river, one reaches the plateau that dominates Monte Rotondo and the two lakes which are the adornment: Melo and Capitello, mirrors of summits, shimmering azure surfaces marked by a serenity that contrasts with the volumes and forms tormented the surrounding terrain.

In downtown of this valley, one of the jewels of the island with the Tavignano, stands the rock that crown the citadel de Cort.