
Often known as “the garden of Corsica” due to its fertile hills, Balagne is still known as “Saint Balagne” because of the large number of religious buildings there.
A second adjective befitting of this place is “festive”, as everything that goes on here is an excuse for a party or festival…
It is the surrounding pink granite which gave the name of Red Island to this town based in 1758 by Pascal Paoli ...
When you arrive by boat in the bay of Calvi overlooked by the Monte Cinto mountain (the highest of the island 2706m) and its snow-capped peaks remaining so white till the beginning of the summer, you will first see the ramparts and the citadel towering above on a rocky headland which stretches out into the sea...

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