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   Bastia Cathedral

   The pro-cathedral of Bastia in the Terra Vecchia quarter, built in the sixteenth century and given a baroque interior of gilt and marble in the eighteenth. It has been a monument historique since 2000 and holds a silver statue of the Virgin carried in the August procession.

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   Torra di Nonza

   A tower on the cliff above Nonza northwest of Bastia, built in 1760 by the Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli rather than by the Genoese who built the others. It stands about 160 metres above the black shingle beach below.

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   Lucciana Cathedral

   A former cathedral at Lucciana south of Bastia, called La Canonica, consecrated in 1119 in Pisan Romanesque and built of green and white stone from Brando in banded courses. It stands alone in fields on the site of the Roman town of Mariana.

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   Église Saint-Michel de Murato

   A church of about 1140 at Murato west of Bastia, built in chequered blocks of white limestone and green serpentine, and reckoned the finest Romanesque building in Corsica. Its carved corbels include figures of Eve and a woman with a snake.

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   Torra di Mortella

   A ruined Genoese tower near Punta Mortella in Saint-Florent bay. British forces spent two days reducing it in 1794 and were impressed enough by its resistance that its design was copied across the empire as the martello tower.

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   Mariana

   A Roman colony founded about 100 BC by Marius for army veterans, on the coastal plain south of Bastia, and the seat of Corsica's first bishop. Its forum, baths and early Christian basilica with mosaic floors have been excavated.

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   Torra d'Erbalunga

   A Genoese tower of the sixteenth century on a rock just offshore at Erbalunga on Cap Corse, so that the sea breaks around it. Its silhouette is one of the standard images of the east coast.

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   Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Bastia

   The largest church in Corsica, built from 1636 above the old port of Bastia, with twin bell towers that define the harbour view. Its interior is faced in coloured marble from Corsican quarries.

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   Église Sainte-Croix de Bastia

   A church of 1547 in the citadel of Bastia, classified a monument historique in 1931, holding a black oak crucifix said to have been pulled from the sea by fishermen in 1428. Its rococo interior of gilt and stucco is the most elaborate on the island.

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    Saint-Florent Cathedral

    A former cathedral at Saint-Florent west of Bastia, built about 1140 in Pisan Romanesque and known as the Nebbio cathedral. With La Canonica it is the principal Romanesque church of northern Corsica and stands outside the town among vines.

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   Beth Meir Synagogue

   The only synagogue in Corsica, in Bastia, established by a community that came largely from North Africa and Italy in the nineteenth century. It occupies a building in the Terra Vecchia quarter.

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   Torra di l'Osse

   A Genoese tower at Cagnano on the east coast of Cap Corse, built in the sixteenth century as part of the chain of watchtowers against Barbary raiders. It is roofless and stands on the shore below the village.

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   San Parteo Church

   A Pisan Romanesque chapel beside the ruins of Mariana south of Bastia, built in the eleventh century over an early Christian cemetery. Its apse carries carved animal and human figures, and it has been a listed monument since 1886.

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   Torra di Fornali

   A Genoese tower at the entrance of Saint-Florent bay, with a base that widens outward, fought over during the siege of Saint-Florent in 1794. It watched the approach to the anchorage.

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   Torra di Miomu

   A Genoese tower of the sixteenth century at Santa-Maria-di-Lota on the east coast north of Bastia, standing beside the shore road, which makes it the easiest of the Cap Corse towers to reach.

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   Torra di Castellare

   A ruined Genoese tower at Pietracorbara on the east coast of Cap Corse, of which only part of the square base survives — square towers are rare among the island's mostly round ones. It stood on a hill covering two stretches of coast.

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   Torra di Sacru

   A ruined Genoese tower at Brando on the east coast of Cap Corse, of which only part of the base is left. It formed one link in the fire-signal chain that could carry a raid warning around the whole island in a night.

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   Église Saint-Césaire de Rapale

   A Romanesque church at Rapale west of Bastia, classified a monument historique in 1840, and one of the churches that served as a seat of the medieval Nebbio bishopric. It is built of the local green and white stone.

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   Torra d'Albu

   A ruined Genoese tower at Ogliastro on the west coast of Cap Corse, built in the sixteenth century, with a black volcanic shingle beach directly below it.

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    Torra di Ferringule

    A Genoese tower at Farinole on the west coast of Cap Corse, built in the sixteenth century and now standing only to about half its original height. It looks across the gulf of Saint-Florent.

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