Vallecalle

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

Geography

The commune of Vallecalle is located on the southern edge of the basin of Nebbiu (Conca di U Nebbiu has), with three kilometers of the collar of Santu Stefanu on D 62 which joined in Boca Murellu, the RD 81 San Fiurenzu - Calvi and which connects the collar to the villages of Vallecalle, Rapale, Pieve, Sorio, San Gavinu and Santu Pedru. Bastia is in 21 km and San Fiurenzu to 16 km. The average altitude of the commune is of 300 Mr. The commune is made up of the village of Vallecalle itself and the two hamlets of Pruneta and Fusaghia connected to each other by the parish church of Saint Paul located on a headland at equal distance of the three agglomerations.

The name of Vallecalle was spelled Valle Calde by Mgr Agostino Giustiniani in its list of the pieve which it drew up in its “Descrizione della Corsica” (beginning of the 16th century). In the parochial registers dating from the 18th century, it is spelled Valle Calle or Belecale what would correspond to a transcription of the spoken language.

Some translate this name by “hot valley”. Others estimate that it could mean “passage of the herds” what would be justified by the situation of the village halfway between the plain and the mountain on the routes of transhumance.

The village is built on a spur connected to the plate of Cherma and the edge of the basin. It overhangs the plain of Nebbiu.

The principal agglomeration is located at the crossroads of the old path connecting the villages, since Santu-Pedru to Bastia through the collar of Santu-Stefanu, with the path joining San Fiurenzu through the plain.

History

Administration

Demography

Currently, the population resident hardly exceeds the 100 inhabitants. After having known a population of 257 inhabitants to the census of 1789 - what was already high for the time - the commune of Vallecalle knew an extraordinary expansion, the shortly after the 1st World war - more than 500 inhabitants to the census of 1923 - in spite of the disappearance of a score of Vallecallais young people during the years of war (to be also announced, which at the end of last century, a certain number of Vallecallais expatrièrent towards the New World: The United States, Puerto Rico, Venezuela). In the Thirties, 70 children approximately were provided education for in the commune even, seven small shops also functioned: three grocers, three coffees, a shoe-maker.

Thereafter, the trade disappeared and the school definitively closed its doors at the end of the Fifties.

Currently the provisioning of the families of the village is carried out via itinerant tradesmen coming from the large agglomerations around (Murato, Santu Pedru, San Fiurenzu).

The postal service is ensured by the employee of the post office located at Olmeta-di-Tuda, to 5 km by the collar of Santu Stefanu.

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Haute-Corse

External bonds

Vallecalle on the site of the national geographical Institute
Vallecalle on the site of INSEE
Vallecalle on the site of Plane Quid
of Vallecalle on Mapquest
http://www.vallecalle.org/ Web site on the village of Vallecalle

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