L'ÃŽle-Rousse
L'Île -Rousse ( Corsican L' Isula rossa; Italian and until 1848 officially Isola Rossa ) is a French port town in the Haute- Corse on the north coast of Corsica with 3573 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011).
Geology
It was named L'Île- Rousse by red-colored porphyry rocks outside the harbor - the " Ile de la Pietra ". This island is now connected by a causeway to the mainland Corsican.
History
The area was already inhabited in Roman times.
The former fishing village was at the time of the Corsican Republic of Pascal Paoli in 1759 expanded to the commercial harbor with city fortifications in order to obtain a Corsican port against the then still Genoese, Calvi. The division of the city's area in regular street squares the late establishment of the place is still clearly visible. Until 1848 was the official language of Italian.
Population
Traffic
Shipping
L'Île -Rousse is of transport ships and ferries from the French (Marseille, Toulon, Nice) or Italian (Savona, Genoa, La Spezia, Livorno, Piombino ) coast, and from Sardinia (Santa Teresa di Gallura, Porto Torres, Palau ) approached.
Train
To power the CFC a branch line heard from the solitary to the mainline railway station Ponte Leccia on L' Ile- Rousse to Calvi port city on the north coast. The route opened in 1890 and is 73.1 km long, first crosses also the Corsican mountains, only to lead to the second half from L' Ile- Rousse as Tramway de Balagne along the coast to Calvi. In the vernacular, this path " The Fiery Elias " is called.