Corsica Holiday Mountain apartment near Bastia and Cape Corse

Holiday Mountain apartment in Pruno Castagniccia Corsica

Bed and breakfast 49 euros for the Corsican nightly hire  or weekly hire 350 euros sleeps up to 5

For a true Corsican experience hire this  mountain apartment in the Corsican Castagniccia (Chestnut Mountains) area, great walking holiday, or a base to tour northern or southern  Corsica,10 kilometres from the beach, 30 kilometres from Bastia, Tranquil village with good walking. Experience life with real Corsican mountain people. 5 min from a beautiful river. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom it can sleep 5. Available for weekly hire at 350 euros per week  self catering or Bed and breakfast 49 euros per night for two person Telephone Annette Martin english mobile 07825561379 or email contact form below. Or  email sales@bathaquaglass.com or telephone the owners Angel and Paul  who are only French or Itailian speaking number Corsican number 0033495392587. The picture above is one of the beaches near Pruno and pctures of the village. More photos coming. Easy jet flys to Bastia Corsica as does Air France. TIPS I suggest you register with Easy Jet for deals they offer good deals, they fly direct during summer season only, book your car hire before you arrive at Bastia airport it is a lot cheaper that way. Do not hire in Franceand to come to Corsica on the boat, hire when you get to Corsica as it is much cheaper on the insurance. If you need any more information do call Annette.

This village is a wonderful orginal Corsica  mountain village if you want a true Corsican experience this is a perfect stay. There is a small bar, the locals are shy but if you make an effort they will be friendly, there is also a resturant which is open seasonal. The appartment is owned by Angele and Paul who are true Corsicans. 

BASTIA

It is one of the most beautiful towns of Corsica. But it requires without a doubt much care and much imagination that other places of the island which are sufficient unto themselves. Italian city by its origins, it kept from it the choir and the Citadel.

Between the old quarter of Terra Vecchia, founded in 1380, and the Terra Nova one, which was begun one century later, the Genoese Domination sets, nevertheless, Bastia has sometimes napolitan accents with its cracked houses, its balconies of wroughtiron and its façades where garland of multicoloured linen cheerfully flap.

We can visit Bastia as a tourist : the Saint-Nicolas Square on which we saunter before sitting at the terrace of a café, the Romieu Garden by which we reach the Citadel, the Ethnographic Museum and the museum of the Sea, the churches and the chapels with their generous setting. Bastia has several religious sights, with a chiselled silver Assumption which is due to an artist from Siena of the 17th century, and the Black Christ of the Sainte-Croix Church, which was found floating on the waters between four wonderful lights.
It is celebrated the 3rd of May, feast of the Sainte Croix intervention, and the statue is carried at the head of a procession through the streets of the town.

But the beauty of Bastia, mysterious town for the one who does not leave in it, is not in the marbles and golds of its churches. It is in the houses with closed shutters but with half-opened jalousies. You have to bother to try to walk and to get lost in the alleys, to discover it.

[...]A music wanders between the houses, sweet as a summer evening when music is long to stop in the horizon. Then Bastia shakes off its modernism and finds again its greatness of the past, when the patrician families lived in the honourable wealth that provided them the cosmopolitan trade.

[...]The music streches out in the steep-sided alleys and invades the city.
Bastia : town of culture, crossroads of nations, with a fate linked to the one of an Italy which is streaming with richness.

[...]From the Saint-Nicolas square which faces the sea, alleys with the mediterranean colors and scents go up.
Above the mountain of Cardu, whose we can see the summit, a pass exists where the Libecciu.. This wind swoops down on tile town like a bird of pray and seizes all what it finds. The puff of wind dies away very high in the sky and Bastia regains its calm appearance.

Visit Cap Corse

Found to the north of Bastia and Saint-Florent, Cap Corse (Corsica) is a 40 kilometre long and 10 km wide promontory, with several attractive fishing villages, much attractive coastline, a couple of good beaches and a ridge of mountains down the middle. Mont Stello, in the centre of the promontory, is the highest peak at 1307 metres.

The usual way to visit Cap Corse (Corsica) is simply to follow around the coast - up one side and down the other, with occasional excursions a little way inland to visit the wine-producing villages in the hills. This provides the best way to enjoy the coast, beaches and small villages, and repeated crossing from side to side is not possible because of the mountains.