Several Corsican villages are classified among 'the most beautiful villages' of France, and here you may admire Ucciani.
An attractive tree ringed lake awaits you after a 1h 30 walk, assuring tranquility and beauty.
The sentinels of the past perdure
Echoes of the forgotten, forever present...
Phot'eau Corse
A strada bedda un hè mai longa
– A clear path never seems long
A capù in ghio falanù ancù i botti
– Downhill, even the barrels roll
A donà sa duvè u diavolù mette a coda
– A woman knows the tricks of the devil
A barca di centu padroni piglia fondu
– The boat of a hundred captains, sinks
A chi combatte cu i zoppi diventa zoppu è rangu
– Who associates with the shaky – become so
A chi stanta, a chi ruzziga
– Some hoard, others waste
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Before progress made its’ way to remote villages in the mountains, peddlers who ran their goods using donkeys/mules, were essential to the everyday survival of community life. It’s thanks to the ‘artigianu’ (craftsmen) that many villages acquired and cultivated their fame. The most well off and populous region of Corsica, the ‘Castagniccia’, was the most representative as regards these professions, nowadays disappeared.Orezza, highly populated and renowned for its’ water, had many artisans; the ‘mulateri‘ (mule-drivers) were known all over the region. Their help was requested for the transport of wood, coal, and iron ore that was extracted from Campana etc., they also delighted those experiencing hydrotherapy.
Valle d’Orezza had no less than ten ‘pipaghji‘ (pipe-makers)...
Belonging to the Fabaceae family, and also considered a weed; otherwise known as ‘the common vetch’. Height goes from 15-70cm, with a flexible stem, high-necked and hairy.The flower is a purple-red, irregular Corolla; 10-30mm in length. There are five petals: one is raised like a flag, the two side ones like wings, and the two lower ones somewhat like a hull. The general structure of the Corolla, reminds us of a butterfly. The calyx has five lobes. Ten stamens, with filaments at the base stuck together. There’s just a unique carpel. Inflorescence: raceme without stem, 1-2 flowers.
The leaves are expressed in series, with short sessile petioles, and the stipules have serrated edges and black marks.
The fruit is composed of a 25-70mm pod, hairy-hairless, brown/yellow to black, and some...
Now, for those interested in history/archaeology, a prehistoric and medieval museum can be explored, within which collections of excavations found on this territory will certainly interest you, so, allow yourselves sufficient time when visiting this area.
A must see too: Cucuruzzu, of which I wrote some time ago, where the temporal length of existence appears on pause, drifting back to the Bronze Age/Middle Ages – to continue on to th...
On the land belonging to the town of A Grossa (south of Corsica), one can find just below the village, the Vaccil–Vecchio menhir. Situated just 2km from Grossa, direction Sartène, the archaeological site of Alo–Bisucce can be detected, dating back to the Bronze Age (between 1300/1500BC). Discovered between 1963/65, and managed by Roger Grosjean, archaeologist, who had studied both the Filitosa and Cucuruzzu sites. Composed of a tower, that has fallen to pieces, shacks delimited by walls and a larger wall partially conserved, surrounding everything. Two fragments of statue menhir were also discovered on this site. In the centre which is of circular shape of 3,4m in diameter, traces of burnt clay slabs were found. Alo–Bisucce represents one of the rare examples of this presence in Cors...
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