Savona - Bastia. Toulon - Bastia. Golfo Aranci - Porto Vecchio. Nice - Porto Vecchio. Piombino - Porto Vecchio. Porto Torres - Porto Vecchio. Toulon - Porto Vecchio. Livorno - Ile Rousse. Nice - Ile Rousse. Savona - Ile Rousse. Toulon - Ile Rousse. Nice - Ajaccio. Porto Torres - Ajaccio. Toulon - Ajaccio. Groups of three or four perform either a cappella or accompanied by percussion, flutes or stringed instruments.
Each of the singers performs with a hand over one ear to prevent them from being distracted by the singer next to them as each voice has a distinct role: the first provides the melody, the second the bass and the third has greater freedom to improvise, but is much higher pitched.
The rich and chequered history of Corsica manifests itself around every corner with some fascinating architecture. Monuments, citadels, watchtowers and museums scattered all over the island bear witness to the ever-changing and often turbulent past of this multi-cultural island.
Of particular note are the Baroque style churches in la Balagne region and the 60 Genoese watchtowers that punctuate the coastline. Your opinion can help us make it better. We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. On the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, language has become a political lightening rod following demands by nationalist lawmakers to put Corsican on equal footing with French.
Elizabeth Bryant reports. Perched high over a large graveyard in this eastern port city, Ecole Subissi too has an eye on the past. Students in this primary school are learning the language of their forefathers: not French, but Corsican. On a sunny afternoon, a classroom of fifth-graders are going through sentences in Corsu, as the language is known on this Mediterranean island, coached by teacher Jean-Marc Taddei. Watch video Corsicans between nationalism and tolerance. His sentiments echo a broader Corsican longing to revive an ancient tongue closely related to Italian.
Those goals are not without controversy. Indeed, Corsican has become a political lightening rod, after a coalition of hard-line separatists and more moderate "autonomists" won regional elections for the first time last December. Now the local government is calling for Corsican to be on co-official status with French here, a demand tartly rejected by the French government. Still, linguistic aspirations are unlikely to die on this rugged island, where goats still cross country roads at will, and where today roughly one in three children studies Corsican.
Indeed, regional identity movements here and elsewhere in Europe have earned a second wind with Britain's vote in June to leave the European Union. If not, the Corsican language won't count for much. He hands over a copy of decades-old rules, once posted in every school of Corsica. The first: Students are forbidden from speaking the Corsican language and spitting on the floor.
The parents spoke it when they didn't want us to know what they were saying. Paris has since relaxed its centralized grip on matters from spitting to solar energy. Regions like Brittany and the Basque country are also reviving old languages - a pattern reflected across Europe, amid a broader assertion of local identity. But Corsica has gone further than other French regions. The island's new assembly leader, Jean-Guy Talamoni, stirred shockwaves by delivering his inaugural address entirely in Corsican.
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