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The Blue Isle The isle of shade and light 2706 metresabove the seafrom the peak Ancient stopover for navigation, comof Monté Cinto, Corsica, a mountain that mercial base and strategíc posítíon and reárs írom the deep, Is a water tower that a natural .ajrcraft carrier sínce the Second receives 1056 m3 of rainfall per hectare World War, the isle has always been a peryear. stake for the dominating Medíterranean The Isle of Beauty presents the paradox power: Greeks, Etruscans, Punics, Roof strong heat and a long dry'season with mans, Vandals, Byzantínes, Pisans, Gean exceptional wealth of water. noese, English and French have acquired A multitude of waterways, torrents and it. The history of Corsica carries the mark streams irrigate the land. of immemorial combat against invaders In the mountains, 43 glacial lakes shine in but alsó of rivalities and conflícts between the sun like so many pearls. the different parts of the isle...this has Spring waters, mineral ..waters and spa creafed a... Tovább

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The Blue Isle The isle of shade and light 2706 metresabove the seafrom the peak Ancient stopover for navigation, comof Monté Cinto, Corsica, a mountain that mercial base and strategíc posítíon and reárs írom the deep, Is a water tower that a natural .ajrcraft carrier sínce the Second receives 1056 m3 of rainfall per hectare World War, the isle has always been a peryear. stake for the dominating Medíterranean The Isle of Beauty presents the paradox power: Greeks, Etruscans, Punics, Roof strong heat and a long dry'season with mans, Vandals, Byzantínes, Pisans, Gean exceptional wealth of water. noese, English and French have acquired A multitude of waterways, torrents and it. The history of Corsica carries the mark streams irrigate the land. of immemorial combat against invaders In the mountains, 43 glacial lakes shine in but alsó of rivalities and conflícts between the sun like so many pearls. the different parts of the isle...this has Spring waters, mineral ..waters and spa creafed a remarkable architectural heriwaters gush from numerous sources. tage that has resisted to time. The tra1047 km of coastline, a veritable micro- ditions folklore, arts and popular culture cosm of the Latin Arc coasts, girt the isle. reach here a diversity, depth and intensity Here, the blue of the sky melts into the that is unequalled anywhere else. turquoise sea to give Kallisté its setting. / The Isle of Passión The green Isle An insular, mountainous space of such More than 2800 hours of sunshine, the beauty, of grandiose sites and a heroic abundance of the waters and the fertility and often dramatic past, could only proof the soil make the Isle of Beauty a green duce men of resolve, brave and proud... oasis, covered by a Juxuriant vegetation Millenia of resistance to invasions and incomposed of a flowered, perfumed ma- sularity have created a society based on quis, but alsó 2380 hectares of thick and the values of solidarity, loyalty and geneluscious forest in an arid, bare Mediterra- rosity. Conscious of its uniqueness, the nean Basin.. Corsican soul reveals itself unexpectedly, The maquís offers coloured and perfu- the chance meeting by the side of the med essences in profusion: Barbary fig- road or in a public square. Sometimes it tree, American agavé, aloes, eucalyptus, appears bizarre. Here the visitor cannot rockrose, myrtle, mastic, briarwood, cork- but be moved by the land and the people. oak, live oak, strawberry tree, etc. Nobody can leave indifferent after staying here. The forests occupy 20% of the island with their majestic trees: chestnuts, beeches, Corsican trees, pines (clusters, Corsican and Aleppo pines) and alsó silver firs, cedars and birch trees... Christlan ZORGNÍOTTI, tourism expert. Vissza