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Corsica offers treasures
When travelling to Corsica you have the choice of flying or sailing from Marseille, Nice or Toulon in southern France. If time is tight, flying would save a few hours, but there's not much in it when it comes to fares.
Air Corsica has flights to Ajaccio with a duration of approximately one hour.
SNCM ferries sail daily from Marseille to Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Ile Rousse, Porto Vecchio and Propriano; the route takes around eight hours during the day whereas overnight crossings take approximately 12 hours.
Corsica's landscape and people have a distinct character; after all, the island has only been governed by France for 200 years or so.
With its snow-topped mountains, desert landscape and craggy coastline, it's a mini continent on its own. You'll find the quiet fishing villages, remote mountain towns and lonely beaches here that disappeared from the Mediterranean decades ago.
When it comes to the island's must-see highlights, the best place to start is the capital, Ajaccio, with its pastel-hued buildings, bustling food markets, cosmopolitan restaurants, narrow-laned old city and rich bounty of Napoleonic memorabilia (the Little Corporal was born here in 1769).
Bastia is Corsica's main commercial centre, and it has a delightful Italian atmosphere thanks to its Genovese past, seafront esplanade, tumbledown tenements, tree-lined squares, crumbling citadel and shabby-chic old port.
Drop into Calvi to see its 15th-century citadel, which dominates the skyline of the prosperous little harbour town; the beaches here are among the island's best. Corsica boasts some important prehistoric remains, including the megaliths and menhirs at Filitosa. Finally, there's another citadel city to visit at Bonifacio, in the south of the island. The town has a medieval aspect, largely due to its meandering alleyways and the precariously positioned clifftop houses leaning fearlessly over the water.
Must-dos in Corsica include cruising the protected waters of the Scandola Natural Reserve, walking the coastal clifftop road between Calvi and Porto, hiking the Gorges de Spelunca and exploring the wilderness of rugged Cap Corse peninsula and its bays and fishing villages, either on foot, bicycle or by car.
Ferries run from Corsica to Genoa and Livorno in Italy. Livorno is near Pisa and Florence, and it's approximately two hours away by ferry from Bastia with corsica Ferries.
Air Corsica has flights to Ajaccio with a duration of approximately one hour.
SNCM ferries sail daily from Marseille to Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Ile Rousse, Porto Vecchio and Propriano; the route takes around eight hours during the day whereas overnight crossings take approximately 12 hours.
Corsica's landscape and people have a distinct character; after all, the island has only been governed by France for 200 years or so.
With its snow-topped mountains, desert landscape and craggy coastline, it's a mini continent on its own. You'll find the quiet fishing villages, remote mountain towns and lonely beaches here that disappeared from the Mediterranean decades ago.
When it comes to the island's must-see highlights, the best place to start is the capital, Ajaccio, with its pastel-hued buildings, bustling food markets, cosmopolitan restaurants, narrow-laned old city and rich bounty of Napoleonic memorabilia (the Little Corporal was born here in 1769).
Bastia is Corsica's main commercial centre, and it has a delightful Italian atmosphere thanks to its Genovese past, seafront esplanade, tumbledown tenements, tree-lined squares, crumbling citadel and shabby-chic old port.
Drop into Calvi to see its 15th-century citadel, which dominates the skyline of the prosperous little harbour town; the beaches here are among the island's best. Corsica boasts some important prehistoric remains, including the megaliths and menhirs at Filitosa. Finally, there's another citadel city to visit at Bonifacio, in the south of the island. The town has a medieval aspect, largely due to its meandering alleyways and the precariously positioned clifftop houses leaning fearlessly over the water.
Must-dos in Corsica include cruising the protected waters of the Scandola Natural Reserve, walking the coastal clifftop road between Calvi and Porto, hiking the Gorges de Spelunca and exploring the wilderness of rugged Cap Corse peninsula and its bays and fishing villages, either on foot, bicycle or by car.
Ferries run from Corsica to Genoa and Livorno in Italy. Livorno is near Pisa and Florence, and it's approximately two hours away by ferry from Bastia with corsica Ferries.
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