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Geography

Environment

Although many endemic species and Sardinians disappeared at the time of prehistory or a little later compared to the continent and the Breton islands, Corsica profits from a Environnement relatively preserved, as well on ground, as on the Côte and in Mer.

The island, which shelters a international marine park , natural reserves (of Scandola, Finocchiarola, Biguglia, Cerbicale, Bouches of Bonifacio and Tre Padule de Suartone) and the Regional natural park of Corsica, as well as zones of Community importance for the birds and of the network NATURA 2000 in 1986 was touched by the repercussions of the cloud which followed the Catastrophe of Tchernobyl, like Italy and Is France. The mushrooms and certain products can still be contaminated. A conservatory observatory of the insects of Corsica aims at preserving the patrimonial species and of the ordinary biodiversity. The risk of Incendie constitutes a threat for the Biodiversité, whereas more than 50% of the damage rise from 12% from the firing related to the practices from maintenance from pastures or ways and zones from hunting. 15% of the fires would be with the lightning, but being responsible only for 1% of the destruction (on the surface). During the heat wave of 2003, nearly 20.000 ha burned with approximately 500 firing, it could grow with the Climate warming.

The Assembly of Corsica (law of May 13rd, 1991) profits from a particular competence in Environment, with an Office of the Environment of Corsica and a Observatoire of the Environment .

History

Chronology of Corsica

towards -80.000/-60 000: first human traces supposed in thousand-year-old Corsica
IXe front J. - C.: beginning of the Neolithic in Corsica
-6500: site of the Araguinna Sennola , close to Bonifacio
-5000: massive immigration since the Ligurie; beginning of civilization proto-Corsican
-1500/-1300: beginning of civilization torréenne; construction of inscribed menhirs by and turns by the Torréens
-565: the Phocée NS found Alalia the city of salt (current Aleria)
-535: after a long naval battle where the Phocée NS lose approximately sixty their ships, the Étrusques of Toscane combined Carthaginois drive out the Greek , this battle marks the collapse of the thalassocratie Phocée
-453: the Syracusains of Sicily carried out by Gélon drive out the Etruscans. Call, admiral de Syracuse founds Syracusenus Portus (current Porto-Vecchio)
-384: The purpose of Dionisos Ier, tyrant of Syracuse and successor of Gélon are to destroy the punic claims on all the sea Thyrenienne. For that it occupies the small islands, the strong points of the coast Eastern and made Syracusenus Portus a advanced base of which it is used for to supervise the areas neighborhood
-280: the Carthaginians supported by mercenaries torréens already being useful in the rows of the army since the V {{E}} century, drive out Syracusains
-259: following a decision taken five years earlier at the beginning of the First Punic War, the Romains begins the conquest from Corsica. Lucius Cornelius Scipio says Scipion to the head of an important fleet is sent by the senate, it surprises Alalia of night. At the time, it would seem that the city free, was populated at the same time Etruscans and Carthaginian. Scipion burns it and renames Aleria
-238: the second Roman forwarding carried out by Tiberius Gracchus Corsica is joined together with the Sardinia and becomes Roman province (Corsican-Sardinia)
-235: the fifth forwarding of Rome in Corsica directed by Spurius Carvilius Maximus
-232: the Annales Romans quote a young Roman named Cristino as being that which gave the victory has Carvilius
-227: following a new revolt Rome grants a provincial mode to Corsica as well as the " rights of the people latins"
-162 : beginning of “Roman peace” after one century of war and a dozen forwarding
-105: foundation of Mariana (in the south of current the Bastia)
455: end of the Roman occupation and invasion of the Vandals, first epidemics of malaria
533: Byzance drives out the Vandales
550: the Goths of Tolita make incursions into the island
590: intervention of the pope Gregoire Large the because of the Byzantine exactions
725: invasion by the Lombards
754: Charlemagne, become king of Lombards, yields Corsica to the Pape
1077: Gregoire VII entrusts the administration of Corsica to the bishop of Pisa
1133: évêchés are separate in two groups (1 for Genoa and 1 for Pisa)
1195: installation of Genoa to Bonifacio
1268: installation of Genoa to Calvi
1284: battle naval of Meloria; Genoa demolishes Pisa
1284: Corsica becomes the property of Genoa which becomes dominant in the Mediterranean; Pisa is évincée
1363: persecution and extermination of the Ghjuvannali, sect preaching non-violence. 20.000 excommunicated and massacred people.
1383 : foundation of Bastia by Genoa
1526: one period beginning of epidemic of plague which lasts 4 years
1551: Sampiero Corso occupies Corsica with the Turks on behalf of the France
1559: Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, Corsica is returned to Genoa
1594: publication of the first history of Corsica
1725: birth of Pascal Paoli
1729: rising of the Corsicans following bad harvests and new taxes
1730: in December, consults of Saint-Pancrate, Corsica declares his independence
1731: the imperial troops arrive to Corsica at the request of Genoa
1732: peace of Corte which will not be respected
1735: January 30th, declaration of independence by consults Orezza
1735: Corsican first Constitution
1736: an adventurer, Theodore de Neuhoff becomes king of the Corsicans
1737: convention of Versailles between the France and Genoa
1738: first French intervention
1747: second French intervention
1755: July 14th, Pascal Paoli is proclaimed general of the Nation by consults Sant' Antone di has Casabianca, it is the beginning of independence.
1755 : Corsican second Constitution. Pascal Paoli defines " in it; right of the people to have them-mêmes".
1765 : opening of the University of Corte.
1768 : May 15th, by the treated of Versailles Genoa yields Corsica to France. Corsica, made indignant, declares the war in France.
1768 : October 9th, the troops paolists put in rout the French Army at Borgo.
1769 : May 8th, the Corsican troops of Pascal Paoli lose the battle of Laying-Novu, Corsica loses his independence then.
1769 : June 13rd, Pascal Paoli leaves Corsica for the Great Britain
1769: August 15th, birth of Napoleon Bonaparte with Ajaccio
1769: closing of the University of Corte by the forces of Louis XV.
1789 : the National Assembly issues that “Corsica belonged to the French Empire”
1790: creation of the department of Corsica with for capital Bastia
1793: separation of Corsica in two departments, the Liamone and the Golo
1794: installation of a Kingdom britannico-Corsican, George III of Great Britain is proclaimed king of Corsica
1796: the troops of France re-occupy the island which was evacuated by the British
1796: Corsica counts 150.000 inhabitants
1805: decree of suspension which grants a time for the use of the French language in the public acts in Corsica, area of Italian language until 1858.
1807: died of Pascal Paoli
1811: restoration of the department of Corsica but with Ajaccio for chief town
1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies on the Île Grey waxbill
1840: travel of Prosper Mérimée in the island
1858: August 4th: the French language becomes the official language in Corsica (Court of appeal: nullity of any act written in Italian, language the most diffused in the island).
1881 : Corsica counts 273.000 inhabitants
1890: in the one century space the population of the island almost doubled
1905: Birth of the Bastian football team
1907: birth of the famous Corsican singer Tino Rossi, born Constantin Rossi in Ajaccio
1918: with 20.000 died at the end of four years of war, Corsica is the department which pays, proportionally with his population, the heaviest tribute in human lives (to the fathers of six children).
1942 (November) - 1943 (September), Italian military occupation
September 8th 1943: following the fall of the fascistic mode with Rome and subsequent occupation of the island by the Nazis, September 9th - October 5th, combat in the unit of the Italians (80 000 soldiers), of the Corsican partisans (1 000) and of approximately 4000 French soldiers (indigenous for the majority) against the German occupant and the Wehrmacht. 700 dead only for the Italian soldiers. 1st released occupied French area.
October 8th 1943, the general de Gaulle in Ajaccio, proclaims: “Corsica, first released piece of France. ”
1944: released from the Germans by the action of the Italian troops and the Corsican partisans, who will leave the honor enter in first to Bastia to the French Army, the island becomes a base for the continuation of the operations in Italy then for the unloading in Provence (August 1944).
1957 : massive arrival of Repatriated S of Algeria (until in 1965)
1958: creation of the Somivac (Company for the agricultural development of Corsica). 90% of the grounds will be reserved for the Rapatrié S of Algérie.
1960 : in April, the Debré government unilaterally decides to create a center of underground nuclear experiments in the unused mines of Argentella, in the south of Calvi, Protest demonstration unanimous, independent of any ideology.
1960 : population of the island east fallen down to 160.000 inhabitants
of 1965 with mid- 1970: toughening of the initially regionalistic claims then separatists and finally nationalists. The island is in a state of insulation and considerable technical delays few roads, difficult and expensive communications with the continent, of the poor sanitary facilities, a deplorable report card, not of university…
1972: “Business of red muds” of the Montedison, discharges of toxic products to broad of the Corsica Cape. After various demonstrations, a clandestine commando will dynamite, in Italy, the ship pollutant.
1975, August 21st, with Aléria: a few tens of men armed with shotguns, actuated by the doctor Edmond Simeoni, occupy the farm of a repatriated wine grower suspecté to be mingled with an accounting scandal. 1.200 gendarmes and CRS, on order of the Minister of Interior Department, encircle the buildings. Assessment: two killed mobile guards and a seriously wounded militant.
1975 : important night riots take place in Bastia between the 23 and on August 26th, Michel Poniatowski, Minister of Interior Department, sends the armoured tanks on Bastia.
1976 : the May 5th, during a blue Night creation of FLNC claiming the recognition of the national rights of the Corsican people, the right to the Self-determination and a democratic popular capacity in Corsica.
1976 : installation of the “bidepartementalisation”: the island is organized in two departments, the Haute-Corse and the Corse-du-Sud
1981: “reopening” of the University of Corsica to Corte
1982: the laws of the March 2nd and July 30th give a particular status to the Corsica area and the first assembly of Corsica is elected by the universal direct suffrage the August 8th.
1983 : death of the famous Corsican singer Tino Rossi
1991: statute Pierre Joxe voted, the assembly of Corsica lays out of widened competences
1992: with the territorial elections, the nationalists (all confused tendencies: Corsica Nazione, MPA…) 25% of the voices exceed.
1998 : assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac
1999: discredit of the policy of the State in the Island with the Business of the straw huts. The straw hut (built illegally) “at Francis” is set fire to by the gendarmes of the GPS during a clandestine action on order of the prefect Bernard Bonnet.
2000 : in August, the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin proposes a new statute for Corsica known under the name of Processus of Matignon which is voted by the National Assembly the December 4th 2001.
2002: law widening competences of the Corsican territorial collectivity again and in particular entrusting new responsibilities to him in fields such management for the ports and airports, the chart of the formations or the safeguarding of the historic buildings.
2003 : July 6th: rejection by a majority of Corsican voters of the single project of community. Marking a victory of the republicans led by Emile Zuccarelli, this referendum is, for the latter, a decisive turn in the recent political history with the stop of the institutional reforms.

Note:

Corsica was independent of 1755 with 1769; its political regime astonished Europe by the Lumières (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire…) and inspired the Constitution of the United States. Today to the the United States of America, six localities carry the name of “Paoli” and two of “Corsicana”.

Policy

Administration

Corsica constitutes Corsican territorial collectivity (CTC), particular status instituted under the terms of the law of the May 13rd 1991. This law substituted this new statute of territorial collectivity of the Republic, which confers more capacity to him, for the old statute of area.

Corsica is thus equipped with an institutional organization original, unique in France metropolitan, but comparable with that of the majority of the other largely decentralized European areas. The specificity of Corsica in the Republic was indeed recognized by the national capacity then translated in several statutory reforms (1982, 1991,2002) starting from a double base: to support the expression of the political debate within the framework of a renovated local democracy, to allow the research solution adapted to the insular problems through the granting of scope extended identity development. Thus the Corsican territorial collectivity appears with the avant-garde of the “decentralized Republic”: by its increased responsibilities but also a rationalized organization and more important means, among which the tax statute.

The Corsican territorial collectivity includes/understands three bodies:

the Executive council of Corsica
the Assembly of Corsica
the Economic and Social Council of Corsica (CESC).

the Executive council

The Executive council of Corsica is the executive body of the community. He includes/understands 9 members elected by the Parliament among his members for six years.

It is this body which makes the characteristic of Corsica. Whereas in the other French areas it is the president of the district council which exerts at the same time the executive and the presidency of the deliberating assembly, these two functions are separate in Corsica.

The Parliament can however reverse the Council as a voter against him a motion of censure by 26 votes (absolute majority).

It is currently Ange Santini (UMP) which chairs the Council.

Religion

Diocese of Ajaccio

Transport

Sport

the Football extremely popular and is very well represented in professional league compared to the number of spectators and with the economic power of the island. For the season 2004-2005, for example, were present the clubs of the AC Ajaccio and of SC Bastia Leagues of them 2 and of GFCO Ajaccio in National. Unfortunately, the lack of means financial coupled with the inconsistencies of management of certain leaders threw the ACA and the SCB Leagues 2 of them, whereas Gazélec was sportivement relegated in Championship of France Amateurs for the season 2006-2007. On this same level, the Club Athletic Bastiais (CAB) knew the first season in CFA of its history, after an epopee in Coupe de France the former season, completed against Istres (League 2). In CFA2, finally, the professional reserves of the ACA and SCB are present, as well as the Mosquitos of the ACE Porto-Vecchio, the club of Corte, F Island-Russet-red, the FC Borgo and the Slipping by Star Bastian. It should however be noted that since its return within the elite the ACA has a regularity of management which enabled him to attract the confidence of the national authorities. The DNCG so much dreaded by many clubs forever have of reproach to formulate towards the Ajaccian club.

Thus, it is not less than 11 teams for 9 different clubs which play at national level.

In Rugby, a club (SC Bastia XV) evolves/moves in national championship from federal 2. The other clubs are located in Balagne (the CRAB XV Lumio), in Bastia (Bastia XV), in Lucciana (RC Lucciana), Porto-Vecchio (ASPV XV) and Ajaccio (RCA). The regional committee presents at the national level Corsican selections in all the categories of young people, like into female.
In handball, the GFCO Ajaccio evolves/moves in D2 and the clubs of Hb Corte and Bonifacio evolve/move both in Main road 2.
In Volley-ball, the GFCO Ajaccio reaches in 2007 PRO A.
In automobile Compétition, the Tour of Corsica is one of the greatest appointments of the rallys on asphalt. Moreover, the Corsican pilots are famous rapids, with the image of Yves Loubet, Patrick Bernardini or Paulu-Battistu Halter.
There are also Ski stations on the island like the Val of Ese for example

Economy

See also: Economy of Corsica, Air transport in Corsica

The sea links between Corsica and the continent are ensured by three principal companies:

the maritime National company the Corsica Mediterranean (SNCM), state enterprise French until 2005, largely privatized since,
Corsica Ferries, Italian private company, pertaining to the brothers Lota
the Southern navigation company (CMN), French private company.

The air links are in particular ensured by two airline companies, Air France and CCM Airlines, which propose regular connections. From April at October, and especially during the summer, of many connections of charters connect without stopover Corsica to European big cities.

Distributions in the three economic sectors (in %):

Primary: 5,30
Secondary: 15,30
Tertiary: 79,40

She has an active population of approximately 109 000 inhabitants for an unemployment rate of 10,6% (in 2002).

CCM Airlines, a franchized company of Air France.

The Corsican economy is characterized by the weakness of productive fabric and the over-representation of the tertiary sector, in particular not merchant and public. The second major characteristic relates to the production structures: it is acted as most of very small companies with little or not of employees. On another side, one finds the largest structures in the large distribution or the sector of the BTP subjected to the public orders. With this a population is added slightly activates and growing old. The tertiary sector, first employer of the island, is marked by the preponderance of the public as well in the public office of the state as of the various organizations and territorial collectivities. The island has the privilege to count 360 communes, 2 departments, 1 territorial collectivity and various agencies or offices while depending. A long time this suradministration made it possible the local policies to have a wheel important of stations to be allotted. The commercial private tertiary sector is marked by a very strong seasonal variation related to the quasi tourist monoactivity. A great number of employment offered are qualified little and seasonal. With the trade, it is however the sector which is most dynamic but it often confines with the or not competing sectors not délocalisables. The industrial sector is almost entirely concentrated in the BTP which depends for its order books: public offerings for the largest companies and of the request room or tourist for smallest. One however notes the appearance of the sector of the IAA which derives in the beginning from the processing undertakings from the local raw material. One will be able to raise without being exhaustive, the sector of mineral water (Holy Georges, Zilia, Orezza), of the drinks (in particular the Pietra brewery which develops in addition to beers, sodas and lemonades; one can also quote Torra), of the cookie factory producing according to local receipts, Corsican cooked dishes, pork-butchery of the Corsican type (without any guarantee on the origin of the raw material) but also of the cheese dairies and semi-industrial dairies. Other resources are exploited but in a more marginal way (wood, roofing stone, stones decorative or of construction). Energy used is partly origin hydraulic, but especially resulting from thermo plants. The wind one develops but meets resistances. Agriculture remains the productive sector most important in spite of its weak share in the GDP. One cannot include/understand the current location without knowing a minimum the agrarian history of the island. Food systems " traditionnels" disappear at the beginning of the twentieth century under the pressure combined from competition from cereals from the new countries and unfavourable customs tariffs. These systems based on the culture of cereals in dryness on terraces with biennial fallow even culture on denshering in the event of food crisis, of neat auxiliary cultures (gardens, vines, orchards) and of a breeding " seminomad inverse" combining grounds of plain of wintering and mountains of summer with village of mountain (Niolu, Alta Rocca, Ascu, etc). Certain areas replace the cereal cultures by the chestnut. With the turning of 1945, the interior is ruined, into full déprise rural and agricultural. The landowners very often emigrated. Occurs at 10 years of interval two phenomena which will draw the current agricultural landscape: the development of the Eastern plain and the reconquest of the interior by agriculture and the pastoral breeding. Vis-a-vis ambient stagnation and with the first agitations (in 1950 Corsica counts approximately 150.000 inhabitants is its demographic minimum) the government undertakes to drain the vast Eastern plain, ground of wintering of the shepherds of ewe. It is a question of installing there a modern agriculture within the meaning of the Pisani laws. At the origin conceived for the Corsicans, this policy comes by the way to accommodate the black feet of return of Algeria. It is the origin of an agriculture primarily directed towards the permanent crops (Vines, Agrumes, Kiwis, Fruitiers), exerted within large structures, with strong capital, large SAU, employeuse of paid labor often of Moroccan origin. This agriculture knew cycles: table wine, kiwi, citrus fruits but have recurring problems due to the strong capitalization necessary and the important debt. IF the performances improved, the future remains dark because the exploitations have evil to honor their work-in-progress. On the contrary, the interior knew a certain agricultural recovery in the years 1970 in connection with the slogan " to live with the country/campà in paese". It acts contrary to light structures (few investments) of breedings of small dairy ruminants organized in systems of the pastoral types: rustic races, vast but not very productive surfaces, average technical results or poor but great stability. One can attach castanéiculture and oleiculture to it. Are often added a production of farm products to it to develop the family labor: cheeses, lambs, kids, olive oil, calves, pork-butchery, honey. It is a sector in full evolution and organization which builds steps of quality but which must face problems of control of the land one, of lack of transferees, difficulties financial of settings to the standards of the workshops of transformation. The vine growing in particular cellar combines hybrid characteristics: strong capitalization but orientation towards a labellized production. This does not prevent that vast zones of the interior became almost empty inhabitants and that certain villages do not have enough any more permanent residents to constitute a municipal council.

Taxation

Corsica profits from long time of a derogatory tax mode moved by his insularity and his state of relative underdevelopment. This mode goes back to the Consulat and was confirmed and amplified on several occasions. The last legislative measure which governs the particular tax statute of Corsica is the Loi n° 94-1131 bearing statute tax of Corsica of the December 27th 1994.

The tax incentives from which the Corsicans, companies or private individuals profit according to the case, are numerous and touch in particular the Corporation tax, the Professional tax, the Real estate tax on the undeveloped properties, the Income tax of the natural persons (France), VAT, TIPP, the taxation on the transport of alcoholic drinks and the tobacco, the death taxes.

To compensate for the shortfall for the Corsican Communities, the law of 1994 founded various taking away on the public revenue to the profit of the aforesaid communities.

The Loi n° 96-1143 relating to the free zone of Corsica of the December 26th 1996 grants to the companies which create new activities before December 31st, 2001 various tax incentives of which some perdurent (This measurement relates to the whole of the island).

Since 1976, Corsica also profits from the concept of Territorial continuity applied initially to the maritime transport, extended in 1979 to air transport. The principal recipient of the subsidies poured for this reason is the public company of navigation SNCM.

In addition Corsica profits from Subvention S under the European Structural bases concerning the objective 1 (which relates to the areas whose GDP is lower than 75% of the European average).

Demography

Culture

Corsican language

The Corsican Langue is a language resulting from bottom Latin and medieval Tuscan. It replaced a language probably Etruscan origin morning of Greek whom the Romans described like " barbare". The current Corsican language was influenced according to the microphone-areas of the island by Tuscan in North while the extreme-south remained subjected to the influence of bottom Latin. That appears in particular in the form of male plurals (resulting from the Latin neutral in the extreme-south) and in the initial form of terms remained close to Latin such " U casgiu" for cheese directly resulting from " caseus" in Latin. Linguistics describe these various varieties like a form of polynomy. The various varieties are intercommunicantes but varied. The Corsican language is the vehicle of the Corsican, rich culture of its songs, its polyphonies, its proverbs, its expressions, etc It is the object of many claims concerning its protection, its teaching. The State posts a political will to promote the language teaching and Corsican culture, actually the initiatives in favor of this teaching are marginal and completely ineffective. Optional teaching of a maximum of 2:00 per week, let with goodwill Masters in the primary education, nothing comparable with the very effective efforts carried out in Spain for the Catalan and the Basque by ex… However, the Corsican language is regarded by UNESCO as a language in the process of disappearance, just as 90% of the languages of planet. Besides one estimates since 2006 that the Corsican language, like certain Italic languages such as the sicilian, Calabrian, the vénétien, is one of that which is closest to low-Latin such as it was spoken at dawn about the Middle Ages. It is, in particular for its alternative of north, extremely similar to the dialects of the center of Italy (Tuscan, Ombrie etc) and it is easily comprehensible by the Italians, in particular for those of central Italy. Sometimes she is considered by the scientists an Italian patois such is the similarity of the two languages; they are in fact intercommunicantes. It is thus normal that Corsican family names can be found can about it everywhere in Italy and in particular in the central areas of the peninsula. Formerly oral language, mixture of origins Latin, Italian, it is currently codified and structured by the University of Corte (Università Pasquale Paoli di Corti) and is defended by many insular associations.

Beliefs and superstitions

Ochju (the evil eye)

Ochju ( the eye ) is a fate thrown on a victim. It is also the eye which produces oil in water, this oil which will make it possible to raise the fate. These turbid and dangerous feelings which have on the victim of the harmful effects are not inevitably conscious or voluntary. One can in spite of oneself throw the evil eye. This is why when in praise of somebody is spoken, that one on his health or his beauty, one compliments it must “make the horns at the same time” or add: “Chì Diu U benedica” (That god blesses it!) ; because the praises and the compliments can hide a secret desire or a jealousy, and consequently convey the malignity which makes the evil eye.

The children who are particularly exposed to doctape and these dangers, carry to their neck of magic protections: small scapulars containing of the substances to the effective virtues, such as salt, the coral, the fragments of candles bénits, and in particular that of the Candlemas.

Will annuchjatura (also called according to the areas, mal' ochju, ghjustrata, will acciacatura, mazzulata, etc) appears by precise symptoms: headaches violent one, fever, nauseas, lassitude…; quite as unexplainable ones that the others, one could not attach these faintnesses to “normal” causes or known. They appear in a sudden way without nothing being able to let them predict. Moreover, these symptoms disappear as they came.

During a ritual well defined and prayers referring in particular in the Virgin Mary (kind of Exorcism), " has; Signatora " remove the evil eye and moves away the fate thanks to marked incantations above a saucer in which were frays oils and water. According to the drawings formed by the eyes of oil will signadora it succeeds in entreating the fate or removing a disease. Today, this old habit which seems to begin again, is used in direction of the newborns but also against the burns, and the worms established under the skin. The bad fate was often thrown by that which one indicated like a " mazzeru" (that which strikes verb " ammazzà") also named in the extreme south, the acciacatori (of the verb " acciaccà" to strike, strike). The mazzeru was according to the active places (it threw fates) or passive (by its oneiric visions, it knew the future). This same ritual can proceed in a different way. This time, has " Signatora " fact the sign of cross on the head or the hand of the person suffering from the ochju by reciting a prayer with the Virgin without the person not hearing it. The larger the evil is and the more has Signatora intensely will yawn in order to evacuate the bad fate. If this last is too important, the person must repeat the ritual with other Signatore, the number of Signatore always having to be odd, just like the number of prayer during the ritual. These prayers can be transmitted, but only one day precise of the year and with one hour well defined. The person wishing to learn these prayers can hear them only the evening of December 24th at midnight on behalf of same Signatoru.

popular Stereotypes: ---- The stereotype of lazy Corsica is very developed on the continent. It comes owing to the fact that formerly in order to nourish and nourish his family, Corsica cultivated only the small holding necessary to make eat his family. The génois not including/understanding the fact that all their ground is not used for the culture and thereafter the resale then hawked the myth of lazy Corsican.

The Mazzérisme

The mazzerism is a hypothetical gift of funeral prophecy exerted the night by individuals for the period of the dreams. During this activity, the mazzeru share to drive out and kill out of the animals. It is called “the Hunter of hearts” or “the Messenger of Death”.

Songs and polyphonies

Literature

Writers

Writers in French language

Paul Antonietti, author of I.F.F. (I Francesi Drilled) , plunged without concession in the middle of the Corsican problem… and French. ;
Jerome Ferrari;
Marie Susini;
Angelo Rinaldi ;
Jean-Claude Rogliano;
Paul Milleliri;
Gabriel Xavier Culioli, author of Earth of the Lords , the Corsican Complex , Grounds of Corsica , Stones of the apocalypse , Song of the Seasons , the Great Voyage , Legendary Corsican ;
Sebastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), author of the fatal Summer , Compartment killers , long Sunday of fiançaille , etc;
Michel Zevaco, author of novels of course and swords of which the series of Pardaillan;
Dominique Sampieri, author of Chestnuts of Bocognano , the Scythe and rifle ;
Jeanne-Helene Sampieri, author of In connection with Ajaccio… ;
Marie-Josée Cesarini-Dasso, female criminal Universe in Corsica at the 18th century , Brigida Doctor at the 17th century , Bandite
Michel Ferracci-Porri, author of the Kid Sparrow, fabulous and tragic life of the richest woman of the world

Writers in Corsican language

Ugo Peretti,
Paulu Matteu Della Foata,
Anton Liunardu Massiani,
Santu Casanova,
Sebastianu Dalzeto,
Anton' Francescu Filippini,
Petru Rocca,
Marco Angeli,
Rinatu Coti,
Ghjacumu Fusina,
Ghjacumu Thiers,
Ghjacumu Biancarelli,
Marcu Biancarelli,
Paulu Desanti,
Ghjuvan Luigi Moracchini,
Alain Di Meglio,
Ghjuvan Maria Comiti,
Michele Polished,
Ghjuvan Ghjaseppu Crossed,
GhjuvanTeramu Rocchi
Lends Gentili Anghjulu-Stefanu
Ghjuvan Petru Lucciardi

Writers in Italian language

Guglielmo Guglielmi,
Salvatore Viale.

There exist writers in Corsican language, in particular since the 19th century, whereas hitherto there had rather been a Corsican literature in Italian very important. Italian in Corsica as in the other Italian areas was the language written by the letters and that until the French conquest.

Writers in Corsican and French language

Lend Gentili (Anghjulu-stefanu).

Gastronomy

The Corsican gastronomy is closely related to the principal products of the soil: culture of the Sweet chestnut and the Citrus fruits S, the Pork-butchery of pig, milk and the cheese of ewe, like that of Goat.

It is traditionally a kitchen of mountain dwellers even if the fishery products became more important, primarily thanks to the disappearance of the Paludisme of the coasts and to the Corsican tradition of Ostréiculture and Mytiliculture inherited the Roman . There exists in Corsica two types of olive oils, one is greener, it is produced in December and January, starting from young olive-trees and of olives at the beginning of maturation. The other is an oil yellow, suitable for the Corsican culture, it is done starting from olives collected under trees centenaries about May.

Corsican specialities

Symbols/Emblems

The Corsican flag represents on white zone a head of Moor whose face east girds of a white fabric band tied behind the head. The significance of the presence of this head is still unexplained, the references to Buckwheats holding more legend. Of Aragonese origin, it echoes the flag of the Sardinia which presents to him four heads of Moor with a Red Cross on white zone. One can note that on the armorial of Gelre in 1370, the weapons of Corsica and Sardinia included/understood busts of Moor and not heads, and that the stringcourses were absent on the Sardinian ecu. The stringcourse was already raised on the face for the Corsican weapons.

Corsica seen of Nice

See too

Internal bonds

History of Corsica
the Corsican language
Corsican Nationalism
P&M Corsican whiskey
Road of the Corsican seaside
Corsican Language class on wikilivres
Turns and bridges génois
University of Corsica
Tourism in Corsica
Porto-Vecchio

External bonds

Corsica on Google Maps.
Prefecture of Corsica.
on Wikimapia

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