Welcome to Calvi
More like a glamorous mainland Mediterranean resort than perhaps anywhere else in Corsica, Calvi curves around a crescent-shaped bay, basking beneath the snowy peaks of Monte Cinto (2706m). Watching over the town, the citadel remains as a relic of the town’s past as a strategic military outpost, with a huddle of 13th-century hilltop houses cosseted by 15th-century bastions.
In 1794, a British expeditionary fleet assisting Pasquale Paoli’s Corsican nationalist forces besieged and bombarded the Genoese stronghold. In the course of the battle, Captain Horatio Nelson was wounded by rock splinters and lost the use of his right eye.
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