Nocario

Nocario (in Corsican Nucariu ) is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Corse and the Corsica area .

Geography

The commune of Nucario is located in Haute-Corse, in the canton of Orezza-Alesani, in the south east of Bastia (50 minutes of car approximately for 55 km of road). This commune is an assembly (historical) of three hamlets: Nucariu (which gave its name to the unit), Pietricaggiu and Herbaggiu. The geographical center of these three hamlets is the Michaelmas church (see low), the town hall and the cemetery.

The area in which the commune is located is the Castagniccia, which is characterized by its relief of medium mountains and its forests of chestnuts which constituted until the middle of the XXe century the breadfruit tree of the island. It belonged to old the Pieve of Orezza.

History

The name of the commune probably comes from Latin " nugarum" , which means planted place of walnut trees.

Administration

|- radical left | align=right| March 2001 || ||align=" center" | || The current mayor is Mr Paul BATTESTI

Demography

Places and monuments

The commune of Nucariu counts three churches and a vault, built all the four in the current of the XVIIIe century, in a style baroque characteristic of the influence of Genoa then occupying power. The principal church, holy Michel, restored at the end of the Nineties, has a " campanile" (bell-tower) coupled with the back of the apparent, typical schistous stone monument of the architecture of the " castagniccia". Many paintings misleads of it the eye with the walls and with the ceiling decorate the interior of the building which counts also a very beautiful statue of saint Michel archangel embanking one seizing red devil.

With regard to the architecture of the houses, those are of high size, with the roofs covered with roofing stones, and the frontages covered with plaster and rough coats. The hamlet of Petricaggio which was classified as site characteristic within the regional natural park of Corsica has a very pretty place in " ricciada" , i.e. paved out of stones planted with the vertical, which made it possible at the origin to avoid the flows of rain and gullying.

The commune of Nocario is located at the foot of the majestic mount San Petrone (1767 meters), of which the rise starting from the collar of Prato, relatively easy, allows to profit at the top from a splendid sight on the unit of the castagniccia. One finds at the top remarkable a small statue of Pierre saint fixed on the ground, carved in " green of Orezza" , tender stone of volcanic origin and dark color green which one finds in the ground of this area.

The village knows today still the traditional harvest of sweet chestnuts in October, as well as an artisanal production of very tasty sweet chestnut flour, being used to compose the " pulenda" , traditional dish which is tasted with fresh cheese of ewe.

The regional natural park of Corsica established at the end of the Nineties a house of the Park within a traditional masonry restored in the hamlet of Pietricaggio. In addition to offices and residences for the researchers, one finds a workshop of cabinet work there where one manufactures typical furniture out of wooden of chestnut.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Haute-Corse

External bonds

Nocario on the site of the national geographical Institute
Nocario on the site of INSEE
Nocario on the site of Plane Quid
of Nocario on Mapquest
http://www.nocario.com/

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