Secret Corsica

Featuring over 190 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Corsica guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Discover a forgotten fresco by Marc Chagall in a mountain village, a magnificent American villa where you can spend the night, the superb Corsican beach used as a setting for the D-Day Normandy landings in The Longest Day movie, remarkable paintings by a civilian First World War PoW, a miniature village built with pebbles, golden hands embedded in the rock a two-hour walk into the mountains, a papier-mache statue of the Virgin Mary, an unusual pool-table pocket bearing the image of Napoleon, a brick from the Holy Door of a church in Rome, a confessional cleverly hidden behind woodwork, the world's largest citrus fruit collection, the painting of an eagle under a balcony, a Bonaparte family tree made from locks of hair, a sleepover in a lighthouse far from civilisation... Corsica is far from the holiday cliches of beaches, mountains and gastronomy.

Forfattere: Dominique Memmi
Publisert måned: Juni
Publisert år: 2023
Sider nr: 256