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Mairie de Cristinacce: Tél/fax: 04 95 26 20 42 Adresse: 20126 Cristinacce
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Le village de Cristinacce |
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Cristinacce village (830m altitude), is built on a litte hill situated just below the Sevi col (1100m), 70 km north Ajaccio and 35 km from Sagone. The village is surmonted by two main montains: in the Nord diection the Capu di Melo (1562m) and at the Est the Tritore (2000m). The photo (in the margin) shows the village de Cristinacce as seen from the Sevi col. About fifty houses might be counted. However, a majority of them are now inhabited only during the summer months: the montain villages have less and less residents over the whole year. Animal husbandry (pigs and bovines), and exploitation of chestnut plantations are the main artisanal activities in rhe village. Cristinacce pork-butcher’s is well known for its quality. Since several years the artisans of the village are also proposing an excellent chestnut flour. The sources around the village are pure and abundant. So a stay in Cristinacce is particularly recommended for holiday-makers, joungs and less joung, asking for a good physical form while eating with relish the local products proposed by the artisans of the village. The lovers of walking trips will find numerous itineraries from half a day up to two days starting from or finishing at Cristinacce. As a matter of fact the central range of mountains of Corsica island is beginning from the San Peter col (1452m) which may be only reached on foot in two hours by a muleteer path. From this col, a walking trip track (GR20) allows to joint the town of Corte in two days via Nino lake, Stazzona col, Ceppo sheep-folds, Melo forest and Tavigniano defile. A return to Ajaccio is possible by train from Corte. In the South-West of Cristinacce, a wide domain of low altitude mountains is streaching. It can be crossed only by using the old « transhumance » track, joining in one day, Cristinacce and the little villages of « e Case » (resting place GR20) and Revinda (350m) loocking down upon the sea. Numerous other walking trips are practicable from Cristinacce. All of them are described in details in this site. So Cristinacce is an ideal place for organazing a lot of walking trips without great difficulties, feasible by families with children of at least 12 years old. Cristinacce history can be traced back, up to the medieval times and is briefly recalled in these pages. It closely follows the dramatic history of the Corsica Island. Following the tratition, the village has been created by three brothers called Versini, shepherds coming from the Niolo mountains. After a dispute, one of them has been killed by the two others. These two brothers have had numerous descendants. Up to now, a majority of Cristinacce inhabitants are bearing the same surname:« Versini ». The ancient village was divided into seven little parts, and has been destroyed, probably in 1460 by Genova soldiers as a repression for a rebellion organize by Giovan Paolo di Leca, a local lord. The village has been probably rebuilt in 1480 at the present place. However, erection dates seen on the engraved stones of the older houses are posterior to 1770. Before this date, the houses were probably built with slaked lime ot plaster, materials rapidely damaged. During the seventeen century, Barbaresque incursions, have again decimated the populations: in 1550, during one of these incursions, the village has been sacked and 80 residents taken off as slaves. One of them, a so called Versini from Cristinacce came back miraculously in the village after many years of banishment. His descendants have always in mind the story of their ancestor.
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