Bastia is the main port of the island and is situated near Cap Corse in the northeast of the island. The city’s main economic activities are fishing and wine export. Corsican wines have a good reputation and are solid and colourful. Bastia was founded in 1378 as a fortified site, a “Bastia”. The town grew and in the 1480s the ramparts, which today are an important tourist attraction, were completed. Later, during the 16th and 17th centuries, the high town was developed following fashionable Genoese patterns of straight streets in a grid pattern.