Ersa

Ersa is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Corse and the Corsica area .

Geography

Ersa is the commune more in north of the Corsica . It is bordered in north by the Mer Ligurienne and extends from Centuri, in the west, and Rogliano, the east.

Part of its territory, which includes/understands the small island of the Giraglia, is protected by a site Natura 2000. Ersa is primarily covered with maquis and arid peaks. The coast, which is cut out in the west by Capo Grosso (Capigrossu) and Punta di Corno di Becco, alternate of beautiful sand beaches and rollers with small creeks. The commune is sprinkled by the brooks Acqua Tignose and Granaghjulu and its undulating slopes by Assembles Maghjore (364 m).

Hamlets

The Hameau X of the commune of Ersa gather in Piedmont in the center, between two peaks. They are served by the secondary road D80 which makes the turn of the Corsica Cape like by some communal ways.

has Rota ;
Boticella : this village dominating is grouped around the vault Saint-Jean-Baptist;
Cucincu : in this small hamlet is the Saint-Pierre vault, as well as a remarkable ruined small square;
Granaghjulu : the houses are perched and the tight lanes - the Saint-Andrew church and its bell-tower are classified Historic building;
Guadellu : the vast Saint-Andrew church, ruined today, is joint vault of Santa-Croce brotherhood;
Gualdu : in this joint hamlet of Piazza draw up a square tower and the oratory Holy-Anne;
Piazza : chief town - an old convent of Capuchins dating at the 17th century shelters there the town hall, the school and the village hall - the old church of the convent, Santa-Maria-Assunta, is parochial today - with also the Saint-Anthony vault;
Poghju : one finds there a tower round, as well as the vaults Saint-Joseph and Saint-Roch;
Suertu : this village given up with the collar San Nicolau is always dominated by the ruined vault of the same name.

The old small fishing port of Barcaghju , located at the bottom of a peaceful bay, to the mouth of the brook Acqua Tignese, offers a panorama on the island of the Giraglia. It would occupy the site of a village pre-Roman. One finds the Saint-Pierre vault there, and with the variation (2km in the south) the ruined vault St Lucia. Its great sand beach end presents a whole of Dune S remarkable, one of largest of Corsica. With proximity, on the commune of Rogliano, is the turn génoise of Agnellu, built on the headland of Capo Agnello. Concurrently to this course is Capizollu , the rocky outcrop more in north of Corsica if one does not count the small island of Giraglia.

The second Navy, Tollare , to the mouth of the Granaghjulu brook, extends its old houses around its vault Saint-Anne and of its turn génoise round built out of schist.

Inheritance and monuments

Ersa shelters many churches and vaults, of which places of pilgrimage ( San Roccu , Sant' Antoninu …), a convent of Capuchin S, now transformed into town hall-school, as four turns génoises of which two are littoral.

The Sémaphore of the Corsican Cape was built on Capo Grosso, as well as a military Radar on Assembles Torrivella, in the south. In Bocca di Serra, on the road leading to Centuri, three mills rise: two of them are in ruin, and the third, known as Mattei mill, recently restored.

History

The old Latin name of Ersa is Arsia , term coming most probably from Arsus , which wants to say arid, and makes certainly reference to certain peaks and rock slopes roasted by the sun present on the commune. The human occupation of the site goes back to one time former to the Roman conquest according to what the Oppidum pre-Roman testifies to Vitalleghju. Of 1248 with 1592, Ersa was integrated into the stronghold of Da Mare of San Colombano di Rogliano, and the commune was devastated by a Turkish occupation of 1555 with 1570. From 1592, the Republic of Genoa annexes Ersa, which joins with Pascal Paoli in 1757. Until the 18th century, the end of the Corsican Cape is the target of frequent incursions of the Pirate S Barbaresque S. When the Corsica becomes French, at the end of the 18th century, one counts 1130 inhabitants with Ersa, who cultivate 200 ha of Vigne. The agricultural and demographic regression reduced from wine surface to 1 ha only, for 135 inhabitants.

Administration

Demography

Economy

The few resources and local productions are:

of the career S of Serpentine green;
the family Mixed-farming;
the cheese of Goat S;
the creative Craft industry.

The wind S established on the watershed with beginning of the year 2000 are as for them an important source of incomes for the commune. But it is the Tourisme which characterizes more Ersa, mainly by the presence of many secondary houses. These houses are primarily of old houses ruined after the massive rural migration of first half of the 20th century, restored, often by descendants of the families of the commune. Barcaggio is the tourist place, by its small port, its rocks and especially its beach (fixed Barcaghju), although located in the commune of Rogliano but easily accessible by the village. Moreover, the coastguard path, connecting Centuri, Ersa and Rogliano, makes it possible to make the turn of the littoral of the point of the Corsica Cape, while passing by the Hameau X of Tollare and Barcaggio. On the mountainous part of the commune, the Mattei mill, recently restored, attracts more and more visitors by his exceptional panorama on Ersa, Centuri, Morsiglia ( Mursiglia ).

Personalities related to the commune

Pascal de Bonavita which became companion of Rochambeau.
Antoine Bonifacio (1865 - 1933), Corsican author of Language.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint

See too

Common of the Haute-Corse

External bonds

Ersa on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ersa on the site of INSEE
Ersa on the site of Plane Quid
of Ersa on Mapquest

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