Corsica Road Trip Part 5

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Part 5 of the Corsica Road Trip covers day 7. It could be my favourite day. It’s all about history and seeing a whole different aspect of the island. If you follow my route please respect the monuments.

Filitosa

Today I continue south with Bonifacio my resting place tonight. It is a day of prehistory. I leave the main roads and cross small rivers and head to Filitosa. This has been a home to humans since 5800 BCE, some 8000 years. One of the longest periods in Europe. The site is well maintained and has a small entrance fee. There are facilities on site. They have a website, which will open in a new tab.

Palaggiu

Google helped me find this place, and it has so many different spellings one could imagine that Corsica is covered with menhirs. Its about 13km south west of Sartene and on the wrong side of the river for me but I’m on holiday. There is almost no help in finding it, just a hand painted “menhir” on a rock and that road is blocked off. So again google, which can get me into trouble in the car, sent me down a track to approach it from the north. There are 258 monoliths dating from 1900 to 1200 BCE. The largest concentration in the Mediterranean basin. Most have fallen over, but as you can see there are still some upright, and aligned. 7 groups, six of which are north/south. The site is to all intents and purposes abandoned, very unusual.

Tizzano

One of the beaches on this route is Tizzano, but it’s not really beach weather today. Having got so close to the coast it is impossible not to drive to the coastline. However having crossed the river this morning I am driving down the wrong side of the river to continue south so I then have to head all the way back inland to the T40. I stop in Roccapina to get some images before driving, and stopping in Vintilegni to watch some kite surfing, to Bonifacio.