Bagheera rhymes with sweetness, with seduction. It has a secret power. We arrive there for a few hours, we end up staying there for a few days. We dream about going back there a few months after.
Blame it on this exceptional site, situated far away from the road and other bothers. Behind, lies a barrier of high mountains that protect and watch over an intact Corsica. A Corsica of perched villages, of churches and upward campaniles that are drowned in the evergreen. A Corsica of walks, discoveries, emotions and truth.
To see, live, taste, smell…
A few kilometers away from Bagheera
- Fortress villages. Architecture, picturesque and incomparable panoramas. Schist wall houses with cubic shapes and « teghie » (slate) roofs. Oil mills.
- Roman Catholic and Baroque churches. Roman Catholic chapels, lost in nature, open onto XIIth century frescos. Baroque churches with campaniles that almost
« touch the sky » dominate their villages and shelter interior polychrome decors and high quality antique organs. Tumbledown convents, used as cemetries, reveal great poetry.
- Waves of chestnut trees. Wondrous. A gigantic green, and sometimes navy blue, heave covers the hills and mountains of the
« Castagniccia ». Under the trees lies fern and « nepita » (pronounced as « nebida »), a type of peppermint with an unforgettable scent.
- « Surprising » encounters. The country of wildlife. Cows, calfs, sheep and goats, black pigs and naturally… the emblematic grey donkey !
- Tasty traditions. Cooked meats
(« prisutu » or smoked ham, coppa, lonzu, figatelli…). Ewe and goat cheeses. Honey. Corsican veal.
« Brocciu » fritters and other specialities...
- Must see sites. Everything is beautiful including…
Cervioni, Carcheto (XVllth century church), Piedicrocce (XVllth century church and organ, Castagniccia panorama) La Porta (the most beautiful baroque campanile of the island, XVllth century organ), Convent of Saint-Antoine, Stoppianova (XVllth century church), Morosaglia (Pascal Paoli museum), Col de Prato (panorama), Mont San Petrone (pronounced as San Pedrone), or « Gros Pierre », the highest montaintop of High-Corsica, (possibility of climbing its 1767 m organised from Bagheera, estonishing panorama).
- Music, festivities. The rites of a unique country, kept intact. Religious services with a capella singing. Processions. Markets. Village celebrations.
Organ concerts.
The « Dio vi salve regina », sang on important occasions, is a very old religious song that has become the Corsican anthem. It has to be heard at least once. Emotion guaranteed.
And all of Corsica,
Leaving from Bagheera
On top of biking, horse riding and diving activities, excursions are organised in the up-country. They can last a few hours, a whole day or even more. Among them, the Costa Verde, Cervioni and Vale of Alesani, Vale of Ampugnani and the Sources of Orezza, the Casinca, the San Petrone… Further away visits are organised with an air conditioned bus and with a professional interpreter-guide towards… Bonifacio (port, low town and high town, cliffs and grottos, marine cemetery…), Porto-Vecchio and the Forest of Ospedale, Ajaccio (the bay, the « Sanguinaires » islands, the Napoleon museum…), Porto and the Calanches of Piana (ochre rock landscape), the Cap Corse (panoramas, villages and seascapes)...
