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March 14, 2006
Overview of Cargese, Corsica
Well, I've finally found an internet café in Genoa which will let me upload pictures to flickr, though it has much less bandwidth that the one at the Virgin Megastore, which was blocking my flickr access.
However, my pictures from Cargese are up, and I'm going to split up my impressions of Cargese over a few blog posts.
Cargese is a mountain town north of the Corsican capital of Ajaccio. I should note that Ajaccio's claim to fame is that it is the birthplace of Napolean, and the proximity of Napolean's birthplace to the town of Cargese tempted some to claim that Napolean had Greek origins.
However, Corsica is a sleepy little town which is extremely quiet in the off-season. One can see some indications of the town's Greek heritage on some street names, such as "Greece Street"
"Vitylos [Itylos] Street",
and the Itylon Boulangerie:
The priest is quite old and does not serve Mass on Sundays, anymore. My suggestion for those interested in meeting more of the Greek community in Cargese would be to go to the town's major festival, which is the feast day of St. Spyridon on December 12th.
Posted by Dean at March 14, 2006 9:53 AM