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Albertacce
Albertacce (; in Corsican ''E Lupertacce'', pronounced ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department in the Corsica region of France. Geography upright=2.4, center, Panorama of Albertacce Albertacce is a commune of ''Niolu'' a long-inaccessible micro-region where invaders were never able to conquer the mountain people, a long bowl cut from the world where there are blond Corsicans with blue eyes and fair skin and has become today the kingdom of hiking. It is located in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica. Location Albertacce is located high in the Corsican mountains some 30 km in a direct line east by north-east of Porto on the west coast and 15 km west by north-west of Corte. The road distance is very substantially longer. Access to the commune is by a single road - the D84 - which branches west from the D18 road just north of Castirla. It then follows the mountain ridge south-west to the village of Albertacce. The D84 continues south west through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albertacce Calasima église Et Punta Artica
Albertacce (; in Corsican ''E Lupertacce'', pronounced ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department in the Corsica region of France. Geography upright=2.4, center, Panorama of Albertacce Albertacce is a commune of ''Niolu'' a long-inaccessible micro-region where invaders were never able to conquer the mountain people, a long bowl cut from the world where there are blond Corsicans with blue eyes and fair skin and has become today the kingdom of hiking. It is located in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica. Location Albertacce is located high in the Corsican mountains some 30 km in a direct line east by north-east of Porto on the west coast and 15 km west by north-west of Corte. The road distance is very substantially longer. Access to the commune is by a single road - the D84 - which branches west from the D18 road just north of Castirla. It then follows the mountain ridge south-west to the village of Albertacce. The D84 continues south west through the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punta Artica
Punta Artica or Monte Artica is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France. It is in the Monte Rotondo massif. Location The peak of Punta Artica is in the commune of Casamaccioli just south of the border with the commune of Albertacce. It is the highest point on the ridge line that separates the Golo and Tavignano The Tavignano (; co, Tavignanu) is a river on the island of Corsica, France. Course The Tavignano is long. In antiquity the river was known as the ''Rhotanus'' or Ῥότανος. It crosses the communes of Aléria, Altiani, Antisanti, Casamac ... valleys. Physical Punta Artica is high. It has a clean prominence of . Its isolation is from A Maniccia, to the southeast, which has an elevation of . Description Edward Lear (1812–1888) wrote in 1870, Gallery File:Albertacce - Punta Artica.jpg, Punta Artica from the Vergio ski resort File:Calacuccia usine électrique de Sovenzia et punta Artica.jpg, Sovenzia power plant and Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Calacuccia
Lac de Calacuccia is a reservoir in the Haute-Corse department of France formed by damming the Golo river. It provides hydroelectric power and water for irrigation in the dry season. Location The Lac de Calacuccia is formed by damming the Golo river just south of the village of Calacuccia. It is at an elevation of . The eastern part of the reservoir is in the canton of Calacuccia while the western part is in the commune of Casamaccioli. The northwest of the reservoir, where the Golo enters, is in the commune of Albertacce. Other inflows include the Ruisseau de Lavertacce and Ruisseau de Ruggi from the south, and the Ruisseau di u Mulinellu, Ruisseau de Sialari and Ruisseau de Vergoleilu from the north. The lake is in the upper Golo valley in the heart of the Niolu region, a wild micro-region of the ''Parc naturel régional de Corse'' (Corsica Regional Natural Park). Surrounding peaks include Paglia Orba, Cinque Frati and Monte Cinto. The climate differs from the rest of Corsica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paglia Orba
The Paglia Orba (pronounced ) is a mountain peak in the Monte Cinto massif in Corsica. It rises to an altitude of , between the valleys of the Golo (in the Niolo) and the Cavicchia (in the Filosorma). Relatively isolated, this peak, notable for its characteristic tooth-shaped silhouette, dominates the Fango Valley and the west coast of the island. Straddling the municipalities of Albertacce and Manso, Paglia Orba is the second highest peak of the central chain and the Filosorma, behind Punta Minuta at . Geography With an altitude of , the Paglia Orba is located in the municipalities of Albertacce and Manso. It is nearly lower than Monte Cinto. The Golo, the longest river in Corsica, rises at its feet. On its slopes at an altitude of the Ruisseau Orba rises in the communal forest of Albertacce, which is a monoculture of laricio pines. Geology Unlike the other summits of the Cinto massif, which are formed mainly of volcanic rocks, the Paglia Orba is made up of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golo (river)
The Golo (; ) is the longest river on the island of Corsica, France, at Course The Golo is long. It crosses the communes of Aiti, Albertacce, Bigorno, Bisinchi, Calacuccia, Campile, Campitello, Canavaggia, Casamaccioli, Castello-di-Rostino, Castirla, Corscia, Gavignano, Lento, Lucciana, Monte, Morosaglia, Olmo, Omessa, Piedigriggio, Prato-di-Giovellina, Prunelli-di-Casacconi, Saliceto, Valle-di-Rostino, Venzolasca, Vescovato, Vignale and Volpajola. The Golo's source is in the mountainous middle of the island, south of Monte Cinto. It flows generally northeast, through Calacuccia and Ponte-Leccia, and ends in the Tyrrhenian Sea approximately south of Bastia, near the Bastia – Poretta Airport. Its entire course is in the Haute-Corse ''département''. The river is dammed at Calacuccia to form the Lac de Calacuccia Lac de Calacuccia is a reservoir in the Haute-Corse department of France formed by damming the Golo river. It provides hydroelectric power and water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capu Tafunatu
The Capu Tafunatu is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France. It rises to an altitude of in the Niolo ''piève'' in the northwest of the island. Located in the Monte Cintu massif near the Paglia Orba, it rises southeast of Manso on the edge of the commune of Albertacce. Capu Tafunatu literally means "perforated head". The top of the mountain is pierced by an opening wide by , making it the largest natural arch in France. Geology Capu Tafunatu consists of alkaline rhyolite with ignimbrite facies, an igneous rock of the Monte Cinto annular volcano-plutonic complex, formed in the Permian. The formation of the "hole" is explained by tectonics. The inclined plane at the base of this cavity is an oblique fault which, intersecting the rocky blade of the summit, weakened it and caused it to collapse. In popular culture Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), in ''Histoire et théorie de la terre'' (History and Theory of the Earth), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Cinto
Monte Cinto ( co, Monte Cintu) is the highest mountain on the island of Corsica, a region of France. Geography The elevation of the mountain is and so is its prominence, making it one of the most prominent peaks in Europe. It is the highest peak of the Monte Cinto massif, one of the four main massifs in Corsica. Its location gives it a theoretical panorama of mountains on mainland Europe stretching from near Marseille to Rome. The most distant mountain theoretically visible is Monte Rosa in Italy, just west of north, approximately away.http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas/EUR/CINTO-N.gif History The first known ascent of Monte Cinto was on 6 June 1882, by a party led by Édouard Rochat who reached the summit via the mountain's southern slopes. On 26 May 1883 a party led by the English mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, and including the French guide François Devouassoud and the landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton, also ascended the mountain by the pass that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and immediately south of the French island of Corsica. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of domestic autonomy being granted by a special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian and Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces and a metropolitan city. The capital of the region of Sardinia — and its largest city — is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of Italy's twelve officially recognized linguistic minorities, albeit gravely endangered, while the regional law provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocus Corsicus
''Crocus corsicus'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Crocus'' of the family Iridaceae, endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Description ''Crocus corsicus'' is a cormous perennial growing to tall. The corm is tear-drop shaped with fine-reticulate, fibrous tunics. One or two, pale to bright reddish violet interior colored slender, fragrant, flowers are produced per blooming corm; the outer surfaces of the tepals are buff with dark purple feathering. The stigma is bright orange-red. The flowering period is from January to April. 2n = 18. '' Crocus minimus'' also grows on Corsica and Sardinia and looks very similar, however, it can be distinguished quickly by the colour of the stigma, which in the case of ''C. corsicus'' is reddish-orange, rather than yellow. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Hort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alder
Alders are trees comprising the genus ''Alnus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The genus comprises about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few species extending into Central America, as well as the northern and southern Andes. Description With a few exceptions, alders are deciduous, and the leaves are alternate, simple, and serrated. The flowers are catkins with elongate male catkins on the same plant as shorter female catkins, often before leaves appear; they are mainly wind-pollinated, but also visited by bees to a small extent. These trees differ from the birches (''Betula'', another genus in the family) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones. The largest species are red alder (''A. rubra'') on the west coast of North America, and black alder (''A. glutinosa''), native ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Évisa
Évisa () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica. Geography Climate Évisa has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification ''Csb''). The average annual temperature in Évisa is . The average annual rainfall is with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Évisa was on 11 July 1984; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 10 February 2013. Population See also *Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Corse-du-Sud Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Forests Office (France)
The National Forests Office (french: Office national des forêts), or ONF, is a Cabinet of France, Government of France agency that manages the state forests, city forests and biological reserves. ONF is based in Paris. The office is responsible for the sustainable management of France's approximately 10 million hectares of public forests. The ONF takes over their protection and carries out forestry policing tasks. Around 9,000 civil servants work at the ONF and its regional offices. ONF is under legislation of Ministère de l'Agriculture and Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire. History ONF was founded in 1964. Since 1980, almost a third of the ONF workforce has been cut. The agency had gone through a series of structural reforms in the 2000s. ''Le Monde'' reported in 2012 that 30 forest officials took their own lives between 2002 and 2012. An internal analysis reported demotivation at the workplace, a high level of stress and a serious risk of psychosocial diso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
