I was surprised by the Propriano cemetery. No surrounding walls, tombs are on each side of the road, without delimitation. This remains confusing for a Frenchman accustomed to closed cemeteries surrounded by a wall.
I hope you will have the chance to go there at least once and discover the particular charm of the island. Get off the beaten track, don't stay confined on these sandy lands, you'll see, it's worth the detour.
If you're brave, you have the GR20, 170km (106mi) long can be done in 16 days with 7 hours of walking per day. I let you try this crossing. A friend, Gilles, could tell you about it...

Apart from its beaches, its nature, its mountains, the island is also a paradise for cheeses but also for pork with wild boar sausages and hams. Moreover, you may have the chance to come across wild boars while walking at night, but be careful. I had this chance, in my campsite near Porto-Pollo or during my journeys between the campsite and Figari airport. But above all, I was lucky not to hit any of them with the car.

An island that made headlines for many years, from 1970 to 2014, with the FLNC, the Corsican National Liberation Front. Numerous plasterings on houses belonging to "metropolitans" as well as to the "black feet" who settled there after the war of independence in Algeria which ended in 1962, made the headlines. Today, the FLNC has been dissolved, the island has obtained certain rights since a Corsican assembly exists. The situation in Catalonia has rekindled this desire for autonomy, even independence. But that's not the topic today. I just wanted to mention the political context of a few years ago.

Corsica, Corsica in Latin, is the 4th largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It declared itself independent from Genoa in 1735 and adopted the first democratic constitution in modern history, giving women the right to vote for the first time. In 1768, it was ceded by Genoa to France without the agreement of the inhabitants. As a result, France conquered the island militarily during the Battle of Ponte-Novo in May 1769. It was also that year that Napoleon Bonaparte, general of the armies, commander-in-chief was born in Ajaccio. of the army of Italy then of the Orient. But best known as Emperor of the French, crowned in December 1804.

The island is made up of 2 departments whose final division dates from 1975 with Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse, then the Corse region was created in 1991. On this date, following claims, it obtained a status of local authority with special status as I mentioned earlier. This status was transformed in 2015 into a community with special status of the single territorial community type (Collectivity of Corsica).