Cucuruzzu

Cucuruzzu is a prehistoric site in Corse-du-Sud discovered in 1963.

A marked out path goes down soft inclined in a small valley to reach a fortress, which one has a sight on the green area and the Aiguilles of Bavella. This village fortress, dating from the Bronze Age and which would have been abandoned at the end IIIe century before J. - C., integrates the natural elements which are the large blocks of granitic rock to stone stackings constituting the walls carried out by the man. A staircase with the steps rather coarsely cut carries out inside occupied by shelters or other “diverticula” (recesses) on an approximate surface of 400 Mr.

History of the development of the site

After the interest carried with Cucuruzzu since 1959 per Roger Grosjean, archeologist known to have studied Filitosa, and the excavations to which it proceeded in 1963 and 1964, the site was acquired in 1975 by the State which classified it Historic building in 1982.

Restored in 1991, removed from the vegetation which invaded it, its development makes it possible the public to reach it while limiting its degradation.

Eleven terminals (of color and numbered) mark out the path by announcing the availability of a comment on the booklet and/or the cassette-audio.

Near the site of Capula is (six others terminal-comments decorate it), another Castellu inhabited as for him until the Moyen-âge.

In this corner of preserved nature, it is not rare to meet peaceful pigs semi-savages excavating the ground of their face mask, with the foot of the trees, less than ten meters of the marked out course.

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