This comprehensive travel handbook to Corsica gives everything readers need to know on all aspects of Corsican life. Features include: accounts of the main towns in Corsica, with up-to-the-minute recommendations of the best places to stay, eat and drink; background to ancient sites, including the statue-menhirs of Filitosa, the ruined Roman town of Aleria and the Romanesque chapels built by the Pisans; coverage of Corsica"s varied landscape, from the west-coast beaches to the granite summits of the central peaks; and discussion of topics as diverse as Corsica"s vendettas, its intense religious festivals, its rich wildlife and its struggles for independence.