L'Île-Rousse
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L'Île-Rousse is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Port
Torra di a Petra
View from the tower
Bust of Pasquale Paoli
Calvi, Haute-Corse
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Calvi is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. It is the seat of the Canton of Calvi and of the Arrondissement of Calvi.
L'Île-Rousse
…of France on the island of Corsica. It was founded in 1758 by Pasquale Paoli to create a port that would not be in the hands of the Genoese (such as Calvi). As Italian was until 1848 the administrative language of Corsica, the town was originally named Isola Rossa (Red Island) from the eponymous reddish…
View of the citadel
Panorama of Calvi and its Gulf seen from Notre-Dame de La Serra
Port of Calvi
The port citadel viewed from the port