Ferries to Calvi
Calvi is in the north of Corsica and was already populated during Neolithic town and was expanded under the Roman emperor Tiberius. History The city was repeatedly destroyed by the Vandals and then the Saracens and Calvi was refounded in 1268 by Giovaninello de Loreto and became colonized by Ligurian families. Giovanni degli Avogari built an impregnable fort here which was besieged several times but it fell to neither the French or the Turks and was the last city on Corsica to become part of France. In 1793 Napoleon Bonaparte took refuge here and for this reason the English Admiral Nelson dest... [More information]