Ponte Leccia (; or Ponte-Leccia) is a French village, part of the municipality (''commune'') of
Morosaglia, in the department of
Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse (; co, Corsica suprana , or ; en, Upper Corsica) is (as of 2022) an administrative department of France, consisting of the northern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged w ...
,
Corsica. Its name in
Corsican language is U Ponte à a Leccia.
Geography
Situated at the confluence between
Asco and
Golo rivers, it lies few km in the east of Morosaglia and is far from
Corte, 46 from
Bastia
Bastia (, , , ; co, Bastìa ) is a commune in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest population of any commune on the is ...
, 60 from
Calvi and 100 from
Ajaccio.
Transport
Ponte Leccia has a railway station on the
CFC line Ajaccio-Bastia, on the junction point with the line to Calvi. It is crossed by the
national roads N193 and
N197.
It has been used as a special stage in the
Tour de Corse
The Tour de Corse is a rally first held in 1956 on the island of Corsica. It was the French round of the World Rally Championship from the inaugural 1973 season until 2008, was part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge from 2011 to 2012, and ...
.
Gallery
File:Pont de Ponte Leccia.jpg, The "Genoese Bridge"
File:Ponte-Leccia gare aout 1994-a.jpg, Railway station in 1994
See also
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Corsican people
The Corsicans ( Corsican, Italian and Ligurian: ''Corsi''; French: ''Corses'') are a Romance ethnic group. They are native to Corsica, a Mediterranean island and a territorial collectivity of France.
Origin
The island was populated since t ...
References
External links
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Villages in Corsica
Tour de Corse