Calvi Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
commune in Haute-Corse, France
About Calvi
The earliest found remains of settlers in Calvi date back to the Neolithic period, in one of its many caves. The first real recorded history of the settling of Calvi was around 1000BC, when the Romans brought agriculture to the land. Since then, Calvi has been invaded many times, giving rise to the popular sayingsouvent conquis, jamais soumis(often conquered, never enslaved). Until 1729, Calvi was part of the Genoese empire, leading to the claim that Christopher Columbus came from there (there is a large statue at the foot of the citadel that commemorates this legend). The anarchist uprising against the Genoese led by Pascal Paoli from 1729 to 1768, and the shortly independent Corsica as a whole, was not supported by Calvi, which retains a very cosmopolitan feel, as opposed to the strictly
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