Bonifacio

Bonifacio is a common French, located in the department of the Corse-du-Sud and the Corsica area .

Its inhabitants is the Bonifaciens .

Geography

Bonifacio, located at the extreme south of Corsica, is the common southernmost Frenchwoman of the metropolitan France. In the south the Mouths of Bonifacio separate Corsica from Italian Sardinia. The city is located on a " veine" of limestone which forms its cliffs, rather rare in Corsica whose ground is rather granitic.

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population

History

The archaeological excavations , led along the littoral and in the back-country, show that the bay was occupied as of the Neolithic time (5 000 to 2 500 av. J. - C.). With the Roman Empire, peace supports the exchanges between the maritime cities. Shelter for the merchant fleet, the port becomes also a commercial base between the Sardinia near and Corsica, within the Roman Sardinia-Corsican province. The urbanization of the port adapts to the development, requiring the nomination of a praeses , in other words a Préfet, for his administration. The origin of the modern city of Bonifacio is not really known with precision, but of the approximate dates give its creation between 828 and 833 by Boniface, Marquis of Toscane, which baptized the city. Like all the commercial ports, its history was relatively animated in particular by a warlike conflict between Pisa and Genoa, these two big cities disputing with eagerness this Citadelle which was a military strategic link and a harbor complex without equal in Corsica. Initially, Pisa was main places until the end of the 12th century. The attested foundation of Bonifacio goes up in 1195 but the city was colonized by Génois which imposed on the city of the important structural military modifications (and which created the current citadel).

Dialect

The dialect spoken by the former inhabitants about Bonifacio (which is threatened of disappearance) is a dialect Ligure and not Toscan like Corsican, probably because of the close links that this port maintained with the Republic Genoa.

Places and monuments

Cliffs of limestone and the very picturesque " Grain of sand " , large isolated block being drawn up with a few (tens of) meters in the floods.
Staircase of the king d' Aragon: Cut by the man directly in the Calcareous and composed of 187 steps, this staircase would have, according to the legend, summer dug in only one night by the troops of the king of Aragon at the time of the head office of Bonifacio of 1420. More probably dug over one longer duration by the monks Franciscain S to reach a source of drinking water located in bottom of the staircase.
War memorial the
Bastion of the Standard
marine Cemetery
Churches: Saint-Dominique, Saint-Jean-Baptist, Sainte-Marie Major, Saint-Roch, Saint-François (convent)…
beaches of Pinatarella, Tonnara, Paragan, Canetto, Small-Spérone, Large-Sperone.
Golf of Sperone

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