Corsica belongs to The French & one of the country's great patriarchs was born on this Mediterranean island: Napoleon Bonaparte.

Being so near to Italy as Corsica is, you immediately get the feeling that it's not fully French, but somewhat more a mixup of French/Italian culture, language, food and lifestyle.

Most walking holidays will take you from the mountains, in the middle of the French island, down to Ajaccio by the coast.

Arriving to Corsica by ship strike me as the appropriate way, and you can take a boat from Livorno and Genoa in Italy or from Marseilles, Nice or Toulon in France.

Approaching the historic harbor of Bastia, facing east towards Italy, the baroque architecture oozes history going back to 1378. Bastia stands for "fortified site" and that is what Bastia was centuries ago - a fortified site.

Certainly you can choose to fly into Bastia Poretta airport - 20 km south from the town center. Flights get there from mainland France, Germany, England, Morocco, Sweden, Luxembourg & Italy.

Trains from Bastia can carry you to Ajaccio, Calvi or Ponte Leccia and you will find buses & coaches to take you in almost all directions.

Most walking holidays in Corsica starts, as already stated, from the middle of the island, and if you would like to encounter the pace of life in a rural village: - Bocognano, at a height of 650m, is the absolute place to do so. The locals get together for a game of petang & they still gather wild herbs for their home cooking. A number of walking Corsican holidays begin here, & the surroundings are beautiful! It is joined to Bastia by the.

The locals call Corsica 'Ile de Beaute' - the beautiful island. And so it is! Corsica is still untouched by mass-tourism and provides a breathtakingly diverse scenery. You will notice that the people in Corsica are enthusiastic to keep their specific culture alive.

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