Piana

Red granite carved by wind and sea into spires, columns and strange figures rises 300 metres above the deep blue water at the Calanques de Piana, a UNESCO site on the Gulf of Porto. The village looks out over this coast, where the D81 squeezes through the rocks. Further along the coast stands Capu Rossu, crowned by the restored Genoese tower of Turghju from 1608.

Highlights

• The Calanques de Piana, granite cliffs listed by UNESCO since 1983
• The Genoese tower of Turghju at 287 metres on Capu Rossu
• The winding D81 road through the calanques
• Arone beach on the southern coast
• The Gulf of Porto, part of the same World Heritage site

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Piana, Piana, Corse-du-Sud, Piana (Francia)), Wikivoyage (Piana, Piana (Francia)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.