corsica locations

Often referred to as the ‘Garden of Corsica’, La Balagne is famous for its fertile soils, coves of golden sand, winding coastline and charming, historic villages.

This finger of land, historically referred to as the ‘Sacred Promontory’ due to its high number of places of religious worship, points northwards into the Tyrrhenian Sea, with St Florent and Bastia at its western and eastern bases respectively.

Covering the area south of a line running south west from Solenzara along the spine of the Alta Rocca mountains, the Extreme South of Corsica encompasses many of the attributes for which the island is best known.

By far the most rugged part of Corsica’s western coastline is the 200km stretch from the Revellata peninsula west of Calvi, down to Ajaccio.