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Corsica/Corse photo gallery
|--Bastia
|--|-- the Genoese Citadel / Terra Nova
|--|-- Old Port / Porto Cardo
|--|-- Place St Nicolas
|--|-- church of St Baptist
|--Calvi
|--|-- the Citadel
|--|-- Punta della Revellata
|--Cap Corse
|--|-- the costal tour
|--|-- Sentier du Douanier
|--|-- Macinaggio
|--|-- Nonza
|--Ile Rousse
|--|-- the Citadel
|--|-- villages of Balagne
|--|-- Tartagine forest
|--St Florent
|--|-- the Citadel
|--|-- Agreat desert
|--|-- church of Murato
|--Porto
|--|-- village and genoese tower
|--|-- Gulf of the Girolata
|--|-- Scandola natural reserve

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Corsica, the coastal towers of Capo Corso

It is here more than anywhere else in the Mediterranean that the landscape has been modelled by the ferocious raids conducted, for more than two hundreds years, by the Berber pirates from North Africa till the XVII century. At that time the pirates had their dens in all the Mediterranean coasts up to Marseille.
The coasts of the island where the least secure places where to live and the inhabitants forced to flee in the inland.
In the times of the Maritime Republics, Pisa and Genoa started a harsh war against the pirates and it is in this period that the coastal defence towers have been built against the unceasing Berbers incursions.
The majority of towers that can be seen today go back to the Genoese domination of Corsica, they had the role of surveillance of the sea and the defence of the coasts. More than 90 towers punctuate Capo Corso erected mainly during the XVI and XVII century. Most of them, still in a good state of conservation, are similar to corresponding towers built on the Ligurian coast.

Corsica, Capo Corso: tower of Osse

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The tower of Osse, an imposing construction in a perfect state of conservation, on the western side of the cape, few kilometres south of Santa Severa.

Corsica, Capo Corso: tower of Marina de Negru

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Marina de Negru, with its Genoese tower from 16th century on the northern side on the beach.

Corsica, Capo Corso: tower of Nonza

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At the top of the promontory where Nonza sit there is an ancient tower of green serpentine that stands out on a square base towering from a rocky shear cliff on the cove below. From the top of the stronghold the sight is fascinating: to the north the deep blue of the Mediterranean sea contrasts with the "black beach" color due to the grey gravel left by the ancient mine of Canari, now closed since 1966.
The tower of Nonza, built at 167 m of altitude, was built by the order of the revolutionary Pasquale Paoli on the site of an old Genoese castle of the XII century. In accordance with a local legend on 1708 a.d. a certain captain Casella of the rebel army on a brave solitude hold the tower against the assault of 1,200 French soldiers, shooting with all the guns left by his fellow compatriots. When finally surrender he was on the point to be killed by the blockaders, that realised to have fought against a single man. But he had the luck to be saved by Grancimaison, the general of the french troops, that recognise him as a hero.

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