A rock of “
40 to 50 cubic meters
” fell Thursday, November 25 in the morning of a cliff in the creeks of Piana, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, blocking road traffic between Piana and Porto (Corse-du-Sud ) without causing a victim, according to firefighters.
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A security perimeter has been set up and a road diversion has been established between Porto and Sagone, said the services of the Corsican community, in charge of roads, and the firefighters who specified Thursday in the middle of the afternoon that the road would remain closed "
until Tuesday, November 30
".
"
A company intervened and overturned the rock, so it is no longer in the same position as this morning and allows a slight passage on the road
" which remains closed, however, told AFP an official of the service. Corse-du-Sud fire and rescue services (SIS2A).
The rock is said to have a volume of “
40 to 50 cubic meters
”.
PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP
A geotechnical engineer went to the site to "
determine the conditions for clearing the roadway and reopening the road,
" said the Collectivité de Corse which dispatched it. "
He must also assess the risk of falling rocks again
," said the SIS2A officer, adding that "
it's been a long time since this type of landslide has happened
" in the area.
The creeks of Piana as well as the Gulf of Girolata and the Scandola reserve have been listed as World Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) since 1983. “
The ocher reliefs of plutonic rocks
", Magmatic rocks resulting from the cooling and solidification of volcanic magma,"
contrast with the piercing blue of the Mediterranean and the green of the Corsican maquis
", writes Unesco.
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The organization quotes Guy de Maupassant who evokes the Calanques of Piana in “
the monastery of Corbara
” (1880): “
I stopped at first amazed in front of these astonishing rocks of pink granite, four hundred meters high, strange, tortured. , bent, eaten away by time, bloody under the last fires of twilight and taking all forms like a fantastic people of fairy tales, petrified by some supernatural power (...) The creeks of Piana are one of the wonders of Corsica;
one can say, I believe, one of the wonders of the world
”.
