Ajaccio: Golfe d'Ajaccio
The landscape around Ajaccio is a Mediterranean coast of wooded hills and a broad bay, which has shaped both the built environment and local life. The city extends along the northern shore of the Golfe d’Ajaccio, a wide inlet on Corsica’s west coast where urban districts meet beaches, marinas and maquis-covered slopes. Ajaccio is Corsica’s largest city and an administrative centre, combining a busy waterfront with older streets near its historic core. It is also the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte; Maison Bonaparte, his family home, stands in the old town. The gulf remains central to the city’s maritime links with the rest of Corsica and the Mediterranean.
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Ajaccio is best known in Corsica for being the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. It occupies the shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio on Corsica’s Mediterranean west coast, with the Îles Sanguinaires lying beyond the city to the west. Maison Bonaparte, the Bonaparte family home in the old town, is now a national museum devoted to the emperor and his family. Napoleon was baptised at Ajaccio Cathedral, while the waterfront and Genoese citadel recall the port’s long strategic role. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Ajaccio and Corsica.
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