Tox

Geography

Tocchisi (or Tox) is a village of the Pieve of Verde, in Castagniccia.

A blog on Tox:

HOUSES OF the 14th century

Tox or Tocchisu, whose oldest houses date from XIVe century, is built in a wild nature.

Some old mills in ruin, the fountains, the caves contribute to the charm of the unit.

The church Saint-Jean-Baptist (XVIIe century), of style baroque, is characterized by its bell-tower, its brotherhood and the flagstones Romance.

Place of pilgrimage, a vault is drawn up, only, at the top of the mountain whose panorama is added to the beauty of the places

In extreme cases even of the Castagniccia, of which it is a kind of prolongation towards south-east, old the pieve became, with the addition of its neighbor of “has Serra”, the current canton of Moita Verde.

The villages follow one another it along a road the tormented profile. Tocchisu (Tox) is one of those. At an average altitude of 440 meters, on the slope is Assembles Sant' Appianu and on the Bravone torrent, it is only with 18 kilometers of Aléria, the large Greek and Roman city of the Eastern Plain.

Tocchisu (Tox) formerly reached the 600 inhabitants, and was one of the flourishing centers of the culture of the Cédrat which made in its time the fortune of the village. Today, it still counts nearly 170 inhabitants, with like main activities the breeding, the culture (citron, vine), or cork. Its proximity of with Aleria enables him to preserve a young and active population.

Tocchisu (Tox) is built within an exceptional natural framework, as prove it the two immense rocks with the Campalu locality, U Pinzalone and U Pentone Quadratu, which make, from their originality, the fame of the village.

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See too

Common of the Haute-Corse

External bonds

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

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