Corsica Charter Itinerary

Corsica Itinerary

Corsica Yacht Charter
Corsica is French by administration and Italian by inheritance, and in practice neither. The island is a mountain range that happens to sit in the sea, which means the coast is steep, the anchorages are deep and the interior is a different country altogether.





This route runs down the west coast and around the southern tip, taking in a nature reserve reachable only by water, a hamlet with no road to it, and a medieval town balanced on limestone above one of the most dramatic harbours in the Mediterranean.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Corsica; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Calvi

Calvi opens the week with a Genoese citadel standing over a crescent bay and six kilometres of sand behind it. The old town claims Columbus, on evidence that is thin and enthusiastically maintained. Walk the ramparts at dusk, take a table on the quay, and watch the Balagne hills go pink behind the marina.
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Day 2

Girolata & Scandola

Scandola is a UNESCO reserve of red porphyry, sea caves and cliffs that fall vertically into deep water, and it can only be seen from a boat. Girolata, tucked into its southern edge, has no road: everything arrives by sea or on foot. Anchor, snorkel the clear water below the cliffs, and spend an evening with almost no one.
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Day 3

Ajaccio

Ajaccio is the capital and Napoleon’s birthplace, a fact the city has monetised with some flair. The Maison Bonaparte is worth an hour, the covered market rather longer. In the late afternoon, take the yacht out to the Îles Sanguinaires ’ the bloody islands, named for the colour they turn at sunset.
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Day 4

Propriano

South to Propriano, at the head of the Gulf of Valinco, where the water is calm and the town has resisted becoming anything other than itself. Swim in the bay, walk the harbour, eat fish landed that morning. Inland lie the standing stones at Filitosa, older than Stonehenge and considerably less visited.
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Day 5

Bonifacio

Bonifacio is the reason people come. The town sits on white limestone cliffs at the island’s southern tip, its citadel carved into rock above a harbour like a fjord. Climb the King of Aragon’s Stairway ’ one hundred and eighty-seven steps cut into the cliff face ’ then take a kayak into the sea caves below.
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Day 6

Porto-Vecchio

Round the corner to Porto-Vecchio and the beaches that made the island’s reputation: Palombaggia and Santa Giulia, pine trees behind, pale sand, water that shelves so slowly you can walk out fifty metres. The old salt town above the marina fills up in the evening. Watersports, a boutique or two, and an easy day.
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Day 7

Calvi

Sail north for a final morning swim before Calvi. Corsica does not flatter its visitors ’ the roads are bad, the weather has opinions, and the islanders are famously unsentimental about France. It is also the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean, and the week will have made the case without any help.
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