
https://www.facebook.com/
Village, heart-to-heart in just a few lines :
1) Santa Ghjulia: (Saint Julie, patron saint of Corsica and native of Nonza) was martyrised there; legend has it she refused to be sacrificed, whereupon the Romans tortured her, cutting off and throwing her breasts against the rocks below the village. Two fountains would have immediately gushed from them. Her executioners became enraged, and tied her to a fig tree, leaving her to die in pain .. and a dove would have slipped out of her mouth at the moment of her death.
2) Nonza tower: a square ‘paoli...
Key figures linked to the municipality
Saint Paul: Legend has it, that he would have gone through the village of Cannelle, after a forced stopover due to a storm.
Captain Pietri: descended from a very old Corsican family from Cannelle, having perished during his endeavours whilst taking the tower of Coscia, north of Macinaggio from the Genoese, in 1761.
The ...
For some time, I had wished to interview a scuba diving ...
Read MoreFrom Teghje to Sisco, Cocincu to Ersa, Cannelle to Centuri or Petricaghju to Barrettali; witness of character in traditional habitat can be observed.
This type of habitat is ecological before her time, thriving on available local materials; stones, slate (slate roof covering), and chestnuts for the framing and beams...
Recent Comments