Seen from the water, CALVI is a beautiful spectacle, with its three immense bastions topped by a crest of ochre buildings, sharply defined against a hazy backdrop of mountains. Twenty kilometres west along the coast from L'Île Rousse, the town began as a fishing port on the site of the present-day ville basse below the citadelle, and remained just a cluster of houses and fishing shacks until the Pisans conquered the island in the tenth century. Not until the arrival of the Genoese, however, did the town become a stronghold when, in 1268, Giovaninello de Loreto, a Corsican nobleman, built a huge citadelle … more »
Calvi - situated in a protected bay surrounded by craggy peaks - was... more »
The best beaches can be found at Calvi in the north west of corsica. Already from a distance,... more »
Calvi - situated in a protected bay surrounded by craggy peaks - was the principal city on Corsica... more »