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Orchinu Tower Ruins

Orchinu Tower Ruins

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Orchinu Tower Ruins

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Location: Cargèse, Ajaccio, Corsica, France

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1. View of Capu Rosso – Torre d'Orchinu loop from Cargèse / Carghjese

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2. View of Tour Génoise d'Omigna – View of Capu Rosso loop from Cargèse / Carghjese

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3. Orchinu Tower – Orchinu Tower Ruins loop from Vistale

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Oliver🌍

October 4, 2023

In the town of Cargèse at an altitude of 172 meters on the promontory of Punta d'Orchinu, on the ridge, stands a partly ruined Genoese tower, which can be seen from a long distance. Orchinu offers a grandiose landscape of maquis bordered by cliffs which plunge into the sea. Here we find the same landscape marked by the presence of dry stone walls, ruined houses, wheat threshing areas, all vestiges of the past agricultural area of the site which the shrubby vegetation gradually hides.
Its construction was financed in 1505 by the pieves of Paomia, Revinda and Salona: the four towers of Paomia (today Cargèse), Orchinu, Omigna and Capu Rossu communicated with each other to warn the local populations of the arrival of Barbary ships.
The cliffs and rocky environments of Orchinu Point are home to the nests of many species of birds: the large osprey and the fast peregrine falcon, the tireless pale swift, with its incessant flight, the delicate rock swallow, the cormorant Mediterranean crested.
It was in the Gulf of Chiuni, at the foot of Orchinu, that the submarine Casabianda made its first delivery of weapons (and men) to the Corsican resistance, on the night of December 14 to 15, 1942: the numerous support actions of this submarine were a determining element for the liberation of Corsica in 1943.

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October 21, 2022

Somewhat crumbling ruin. Keep enough distance as the walls could fall down.

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Jana

October 4, 2021

The Tower of Orchinu (Corsican: Torra d'Orchinu) is a ruined Genoese tower located in the commune of Cargèse on the Corsica. It sits at an elevation of 172 metres (564 ft) on the Punta d'Orchinu headland. The tower was one of a series of coastal defences constructed by the Republic of Genoa between 1530 and 1620 to stem the attacks by Barbary pirates. The Tour d'Orchinu tower was built between 1605 and 1606 under the direction of Giacomo della Piana.Portions of the headland and the adjacent coastline covering an area of 190 hectares (470 acres) are owned by an agency of the French state, the Conservatoire du littoral.
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Location: Cargèse, Ajaccio, Corsica, France

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Orchinu Tower Ruins

1. View of Capu Rosso – Torre d'Orchinu loop from Cargèse / Carghjese

2. View of Tour Génoise d'Omigna – View of Capu Rosso loop from Cargèse / Carghjese

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