#CorsicaVacationsFriendsTravel #FriendsTravelWestHollywoodCa Napoleons Soulful Island Home Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte suffered his final military defeat, Corsica, his birthplace, stubbornly resists its own cultural Waterloo. Though this Mediterranean island has deep, historic ties to Italy and has been part of France since 1769, its 300,000 inhabitants retain a fierce pride in their own unique culture, including the proverb-rich Corsican tongue. But to keep that birthright vibrant in the face of tourism and its homogenizing effects, their battle remains constant. Fortunately, most of the island’s three million annual visitors come for the undeniable pleasures of the coast or for the thrill of visiting historic La Maison Bonaparte, in the city of Ajaccio. All of which leaves the island’s mountainous interior largely untouched. “Go inland and you will find the soul of Corsica,” advises Jean-Sébastien Orsini, director of a traditional Corsican polyphonic choir in the foothill town of Calanzana. Olive groves and quiet villages dot the slopes and isolated valleys of the interior, vast swaths of which are protected by the Parc Naturel Régionale de Corse, which covers more than 40 percent of the island. Hiking trails lace forests of oak and pine. In the villages here, you encounter Corsicans who still feel passionately the adage “Una lingua si cheta, un populu si more—A language is silenced, a people die.” #JessKalinowsky JESS@FriendsTravel 24|7|365 #DiscountAirfaresWorldwideFriendsTravel First, Business, and Coach. #BestValueTouringWorldwideFriendsTravel #BestValueHotelsResortsSpasVillasWorldwideFriendsTravel #BestValueCruisesWorldwideFriendsTravel FriendsTravel FriendsTravel.net FriendsTravel.us
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:24:31 +0000
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