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Corsica: People
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Spirited, wild and nurturing, Corsica is a well-preserved maternal cradle of early human civilization inviting people to reconnect with their roots and their spirit. From the Stone Age until the last century, civilization has engraved its mark on Corsica, the most significant area in Europe for the quantity and the quality of megalithic statue art and one of the richest historic landmarks of Western Europe.
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Corsica's history reveals a complex revolving door of takeovers - with exploitation and neglect the modus operandi of most colonisers - and attempts by its people to reclaim their autonomy and traditions. It's likely that it all started back in the Palaeolithic era (up to 12,000 BC), but the earliest signs of life on Corsica - the skeletal remains of Bonifacio woman - date back only to the early Neolithic era (6570 BC). The early days were a time of big stones - menhirs, dolmens, statuary, torri and nuraghi were all built by successive rounds of inhabitants. For a long time Corsica was just a port stop for the seafaring Mediterranean peoples, but it soon drew more interest. Its first real conquerers were the Romans; eventually Goths, Vandals, the Byzantine Empire, Moors and the papacy all stepped up to try their hand.
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Corsica's rugged coasts and jagged mountains can be daunting, while its taciturn people may appear unapproachable. Corsicans are intimate in community and personally reserved. Men and women have a striking mutualism. Each is supreme, but not dominant. The family and the clan are paramount, while strangers are welcome.
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Lucien Benvenuti, a restaurant owner on Corsica, received two phone calls in June with a demand from people who said they spoke for the separatist movement on the French island: pay 100,000 euros or die. via Bloomberg
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Around one-and-three-quarter million people visit Corsica each year, drawn by a climate that's mild even in winter and by some of the most astonishingly diverse landscapes in Europe. Nowhere in the Mediterranean are there beaches finer than Corsica's perfect half-moon bays of white sand and transparent water, or seascapes more inspiring than the granite cliffs of the west coast. Even though the annual influx of tourists now exceeds the island's population sevenfold, tourism has not spoilt the place: there are a few resorts, but overdevelopment is rare and high-rise blocks are confined to the main towns.
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Very few people outside of the Eurasian area knew anything about Corsica until 1450, when Italian time traveler and part-time songwriter Leonardo da Vinci wrote a popular ballad about the underground metropolis. He sung in high praise of the city's dwarven populace, admired them for their skills in engineering and debauchery, and lamented the historic death of three thousand dwarf children in the exceedingly rare occurrence of a subterranean glaciernado which had traveled down from Siberia.
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