Cambia

Geography

Cambia is located in the Pieve of Vallerustie, in Castagniccia with the foot of the San Petrone with approximately forty kilometers of Corte /Corti. There to go, take Main road 193, then the road of San Lorenzo/San Lurenzu (two kilometers after Francardo/Francardu), to take on the left on the level of the bridge of Lano/Lanu.

The commune of Cambia includes/understands several hamlets: Cambia, Corsoli/Corsuli Loriani /Luriani and San Quilico /San Chilicu

History

Administration

Demography

Famous characters

Wire of farmers, Page-Marie Vincenti was born in Cambia in 1872. This intrepid Corsica " with the neat moustache and the glance valeureux" as the soldier Louis Torre in his newspaper wrote it, will illustrate itself in many combat. Its courage will be worth to him, beyond the respect that it will save to him near its men, to be decorated at once with honor by the Pétain marshal. Returned in the ten eight years age in the army, it takes part in particular in the countryside of Tonkin. Lieutenant with the declaration, it is mobilized in the 173e regiment of infantry. The officer is not long in pointing out himself by bravery only it expresses while going up to the attack and thus it reaches the rank of captain. Vincenti will take part in the catch of the fort of Douaumont on October 24th, 1916. It will be wounded twice (left arm and right leg). On its return he will be elected mayor of Cambia.

During the second world war, it will assemble a savage partisan of the mode of Vichy. Seeing in the person of the Pétain marshal, the true saver of FRANCE. It will be after the release constrained not to represent itself with the municipal elections, thus paying its engagement lasting the war.

It dies out in Paris in 1956.

Page-Marie Vincenti will have three wire: Jean-Benoit, François and Charles-Louis Joffre who all the three, their manner, will resist at the time of the second world war.

tourist places and event

The statue menhir of Santa Maria to the foot of the vault of the same name. With proximity, a large named flat rock “has Petra Frisgiata”.

Petra frisgiata I, site of the rupestral art most complete of Corsica (importance exceeding the local framework):

" 595 signs were raised, which makes of Petra Frisgiata I the site of the rupestral art most complete and consequently more provided île." " The study of the superpositions and the nature of the signs returns to several periods, between the age of iron and the period contemporaine". S.Leconte-Tusoli & L.Franceschini, " Archaeological guide of Corse" , under the direction of M-C Weiss, Albiana, Aiacciu, 2006, p.67.

For the dating of the Romance vault of Santa Maria, Genevieve Moracchini-Mazel written: " we proposed to retain that its construction, like that of the church of San Chilico, could date from the last years of XIIe or XIIIe S. and that it had to intervene to replace a preceding vault préromane (re-employments in the bell-tower). " G.Moracchini-Mazel, " Churches Romance of Corse" , C.Klincksieck Bookstore, Paris, 1967, vol.2, p.323.

Originality (importance exceeding the local framework) this Romance vault: " it is the only Romance furnace bridge places from there which was preserved to us in Corse" (G. Moracchini-Mazel). We will add that his form of " stazzona" is disconcerting (the three orthostates and the table: traditional dolmenic form in the South of the island, but from which there does not remain any trace in Castagniccia). All the more, that it is the only furnace bridge of this intact found type, and that it is attested that the vault replaced a preceding building préroman.

These three classified historic buildings (Capella Santa Maria, Stantara Santa Maria, Petra Frisgiata I), easily accessible and are clearly shown (of the visits are even organized).

Higher while going up towards the hamlet of San Quilico/San Chilicu one finds a superb vault Romance dating from XIIIe century: The vault San Quilico/San Chilicu (Holy Cyr) decorated carved decorations.

The oral tradition wants that the two vaults were built, one by the father, the other by the son. G.Moracchini-Mazel confirms that they " were certainly built at the same time ".

External bonds

Cambia on the site of the dragouli

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