Destination · Corsica
Corsica
An island most people try to drive around, and shouldn’t. The south has the water everyone comes for; the interior has almost none of the visitors.
Everyone who’s only seen the postcards thinks Corsica is a beach. It is, and a genuinely good one — but the island most people never bother to see is forty minutes inland: granite villages, a mountain cuisine, a language that survived being governed from elsewhere for most of its history. Three ways into the same island, none of them the whole thing.
01 — The Selection
Three ways to read the same island.
Itinerary
Corsica, The South, In About a Week
Porto-Vecchio to Bonifacio, the beaches ranked honestly, and the one day inland that isn’t optional.
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Culture & Food
The Corsica That Has Nothing To Do With the Beach
Shot-out road signs, a mountain cuisine on an island, and why the villages went up in the hills.
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Sensory
You Smell Corsica Before You See It
The maquis, the specific colour of the water, and the wind that rearranges your day.
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Five-star hotel
Casadelmar, Porto-Vecchio
We’d point you toward Casadelmar first, and not because it’s the loudest option in the gulf — the opposite, really. Jean-François Bodin built low and quiet: white walls, grey Bateig stone, pale wood, and thirty-four rooms with the beds turned to face the water rather than the room. Jean Mus’s three hectares of garden do the rest of the framing — olive trees old enough to have outlasted several owners’ opinions about what belongs there.
The restaurant holds two Michelin stars and a Passion Dessert award, which sounds like a lot until you’ve eaten there and realised the kitchen doesn’t seem to know it’s supposed to be showing off.
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