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Orchinu Tower

Orchinu Tower

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Orchinu Tower

Name: Orchinu Tower
Rating: 2

Recommended by 24 hikers

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Parc naturel régional de Corse

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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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🚴‍♀️🆘🐗Faustus Heroldus 🥨💪🦸

October 8, 2023

Old Genoese tower as the central destination of the hike.

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

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