Cargèse

Cargese ( Corsican: Carghjese; Greek Καργκέζε ) is a commune on the west coast of Corsica with 1212 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011), 50 km north of Ajaccio. Villages in the municipality, in addition to Cargese Esigne, Sagone, Rocca Marina, Le Couvent, Marchese, Pancone, Rondolino and Lozzi.

History

Prehistory

First traces of settlement can be found in Cargese from the period around 7000-6000 BC Later, the area was first settled by the Iberians and then by the Phoenicians. The Greeks founded the city 565 Aleria, which came to the Roman Empire and was later hit by vandals and degenerated.

Greek foundation

On March 14, 1676 landed three Genoese galleys with 800 Greek refugees in Paomia in Corsica. 1729 during a general revolt of the Corsicans against Genoa, the Greek newcomers were expelled. They were in 1774 awarded as compensation for the loss of their property in the area Paomia Cargese. They founded here the present site Cargese.

Part of the Greeks took the Roman Catholic rite, while the other part of the Greek-Catholic further follows, so that the place now has two churches: Built in 1825-1828 Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection and the Built 1852-1872 Greek Catholic Church Saint- Spiridon.

The Greek dialect of the refugees was explored by the Dutch scholar GH Blanken.

Since the 1960s, consists in Cargese the Institut d' études scientifiques de Cargese ( IESC ), a company founded on the initiative of the physicist Maurice Lévy Research Institute.

Attractions

• Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic (Latin ) Church
• Ruins of the Cathedral in S. Appiano Sagone
• Dolmen of Paomia