The area we were staying in has had inhabitants for quite some time........ about 6000 +years!!
The closest area, the Plateau de Cauria, was just over the hill from our bergerie....about 2kms as the crow flies, but in order to get there by car it was 37kms away!
This was fascinating! We were able to meander around the site....said to be 300m from the parking lot, but more like a km! We could see why we had to park in that particular area, once we were on the next part of the road, which did continue on, in a very, very rutted state...
Then the circular walk around was about a km...
First one saw the Stantari standing stones..... which are fabulous
Then the Renaju site of 40 menihirs....
Then the Fontanacia Dolmen....
and our bergerie was just behind those rocky hills!
Looking the other way was an alpine type of view... Corsica is an island of contrasts!
Another day we went to Filitosa, about 1.5 hours away....
Again this was also fascinating.... but more commercial than the other site. We were almost alone for the first site and it was free to just wander around. Filitosa , described in this Corsica blog link, is still privately owned and was quite expensive to enter, not kept up too well and had lots of visitors. Probably because it is closer to Ajacchio. It also had piped music ... which was very annoying!
This looked rather like the grotto at the Domaine de Murtoli, now their dining room...
The closest area, the Plateau de Cauria, was just over the hill from our bergerie....about 2kms as the crow flies, but in order to get there by car it was 37kms away!
This was fascinating! We were able to meander around the site....said to be 300m from the parking lot, but more like a km! We could see why we had to park in that particular area, once we were on the next part of the road, which did continue on, in a very, very rutted state...
Then the circular walk around was about a km...
First one saw the Stantari standing stones..... which are fabulous
Then the Renaju site of 40 menihirs....
Then the Fontanacia Dolmen....
Looking the other way was an alpine type of view... Corsica is an island of contrasts!
Another day we went to Filitosa, about 1.5 hours away....
Again this was also fascinating.... but more commercial than the other site. We were almost alone for the first site and it was free to just wander around. Filitosa , described in this Corsica blog link, is still privately owned and was quite expensive to enter, not kept up too well and had lots of visitors. Probably because it is closer to Ajacchio. It also had piped music ... which was very annoying!
This looked rather like the grotto at the Domaine de Murtoli, now their dining room...
This is the dining room at the Domaine!!
And there was some evidence of past inhabitants!
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