And what a history it is. Located 105 miles from the south-eastern French coast – where our journey began, in Nice – and 56 miles from Italy, Corsica’s illustrious past dates from antiquity.

It is also one of his shortest pilgrimages. Corsica, located in the Mediterranean Sea southeast of the mainland, is known as the "island of beauty." It is renowned for its exceptional cuisine ...

The nature reserve, which is part of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica, occupies the Scandola peninsula, an impressive, porphyritic rock mass. The vegetation is an outstanding example of scrubland.