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Piana

Corse-du-Sud, Corse

Piana is a village in Corse-du-Sud, at about 450 metres' altitude, overlooking the Gulf of Porto. It is listed among the Most Beautiful Villages of France and has a little over 450 inhabitants. Destroyed by Barbary pirates, it was rebuilt in 1690, made a parish in 1713, and its church of the Assumption was completed in 1792.

Its commune is known for the calanche of Piana, cliffs of red and pink granite sculpted by erosion, which plunge into the sea. They are part of the Gulf of Porto site, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage since 1983. The territory also includes the protected site of Capu Rossu, with its sixteenth-century Genoese tower, and shelters an endemic plant, Madame Gysperger's pink. You stroll through the village lanes, and many hiking paths set off towards the surroundings.

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