True border between the mineral world and the Mediterranean, Calvi is a dream of stone but not only.
Seen from the sea, approaching the citadel, the sailor perceives the city in its major features and tries to pierce its many mysteries.
Its location on a rocky promontory immediately intrigues it.
Proudly facing the sea, its usefulness is well established.
Its walls sometimes 80 meters high protect the ancient Genoese city and contribute to the Calvian coastal silhouette.
A formidable fortress that has suffered repeated attacks from invaders, like a sentinel, it pleads in favor of the rich past of the Calvais, while protecting their descendants.
Because the city "
semper fidelis
», always faithful to Genoa, from the end of the 12th century, suffered many sieges.
It was during one of them, in 1794, when the French locked up in Calvi were resisting the attacks of General Stuart, that Admiral Nelson (then commander of the vessel) lost an eye.
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