Route details.
10 stages,
totaling :
- 1,000 to 1,400 km. depending on route taken.
- 15,000 to 20,000 m of climbing (47 to 80 cols.)
- 6 B.P.F. (Brevet validation points) - BONIFACCIO, ZONA, CORTE, PIEDICROCE,
NONZA and PIANA.
Programme
You can start the journey anywhere, in BASTIA
BASTIA for example, and climb to Cap Corse, follow the coast between the sea and the mountain until SAINT FLORENT, through the desert of the AGRIATES, continue towards
CALVI and rejoin the sea to the bay of
PORTO and the Calanche de PIANA.
You then make your way into the interior of the island to climb the col du VERGIO, the highest road in Corsica (1473 m.) and its
ski station. You are bound to discover the friendly hospitality of the people,
the magnificent sights, the rides through the sleepy villages in the middle of
the afternoon.
Continuing on your route you will arrive at
AJACCIO after
passing through CARGESE and
all the extreme south coast from PROPRIANO of
BONIFACIO, then up to PORTO-VECCHIO, round the BAVELLA,
needles, and back through SOLENZARA and
the eastern coast.
Before returning
to your starting point, go into the interior, through PIEDICROCE. .
No palm trees, no rubber trees, but a beautiful and sombre forest of chestnut
trees, on roads that tunnel beneath the greenery, with the occasional herds of
pigs and goats.