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AJACCIO. The most comfortable way to go to Sartène is to take the
steamer to Propriano, only 8 miles N. from Sartène, and there to await
the daily coach. The diligence from Ajaccio, after having crossed the
rivers Gravona, Prunelli, Agnone, Vergajolo and Margone, and the pass of
Campolaccio, 843 feet, arrives at
[Headnote: CAURO.]
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CAURO or CAVRO, 1180 ft. _Inn._ Coach to Bastelica. Pop. 700. A
straggling mountain village, commanding extensive views.
Cauro to Bastelica.
12 m. northwards by "Courrier" by a charming forest road, which
after crossing the Else at the Pont Zipitoli, 7 m. from Cauro,
enters the defile of the Prunelli at the Col de Menta, about 2 m.
from Bastelica.
The road from Cauro crosses the Col Torro, 1394 ft., 1½ m. Four
miles, the col and bridge S. Alberto, 1710 ft. whence a road
ramifies 7½ m. S. to S. Maria-Siché and Grossetto. On the right side
of the road a waterfall descends from the crest of the Usciolo.
Large oaks and chestnut trees with ilexes and pines are now seen.
7 m. here a short branch road leads to a maison forestière surrounded
by large trees, at the foot of Mt. Mantelluccio, 5515 ft. A little
farther a road ramifies 4½ m. by the wild and beautiful valley of
the Else into the forest of Ponteniello, and where it ends a mule
path commences to Frasseto, pop. 750, on the coach road between
Ajaccio and the baths of Guitera. 7½ m. the Zipitoli bridge across
the Else, a short way above its junction with the Prunelli. On the
right side of the river is the Maison de Cantonniers of Zipitoli.
8 m. The Col Crichetto, 2380 ft., and nearly 3 m. farther the Col
Menta, 2458 ft., from which the road descends to the Prunelli and
continues by its banks to
[Headnote: DOMINICACCI.]
Bastelica, pop. 4000, inn, 2400 ft., consisting of a group of
hamlets, none of which bears the name of Bastelica. Sampiero was
born in the one called Dominicacci, between Stazzona and Costa, at
the end of the 15th cent., and killed by the Ornanos in the defile
of the Prunelli on the 17th January 1567. The house which stands on
the site of the one he lived in bears an epitaph to his memory,
placed by "William Wyse, Irish Roman Catholic, nephew of Napoleon
the Great."
[Headnote: MT. RENOSO.]
Among the many pleasant excursions is the ascent of Mt. Renoso, 7733
ft., 5½ hrs. N.E.
In summer men go up every day with mules for frozen snow. There are
lakes on the south and east sides of the mountain, and some fine
velvety swards. Map, p. 27.
Five miles beyond Cauro, the Sartène road attains the summit of the Col
St. Georges, 2500 ft., commanding a fine prospect of the surrounding
country, and afterwards descends to the valley of Ornano, the native
land of Vanina, traversed by the Taravo.
miles from AJACCIO
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APA, whence a Route Departamentale extends 18 m. N.E. to the baths of
Guitera and Zicavo. Maps, pp. 1 and 27.