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The city of Bastia has extended its heritage signage by integrating the accessibility of an agricultural wasteland in the city centre in order to make more ineligible the way in which the Bastians have taken advantage of a fertile land and a location in the heart of the Tyrrhenian area to make Bastia the economic capital of Corsica

For about twenty years, the City of Bastia has been making significant and constant efforts to restore, conserve and enhance its heritage. The restoration campaigns of the immovable and movable heritage have been accompanied by systematic steps of collection, documentation and inventory of these structuring elements of the urban landscape and the tourist routes. In order to disseminate this knowledge and make it accessible to as many people as possible, the City has carried out a vast project of heritage signage in the historic centre, associated with the creation of thematic visit routes. The texts were drawn up by a group of historians, art historians and linguists in French, Corsican and English. The materials were chosen in accordance with the Second Empire style urban furniture present in Bastia. At the same time, the development of tourism in the old town centre led to a detailed study of the flow of traffic between the lower and upper town in order to strengthen the link between the centres of attraction (Place Saint Nicolas, Old Port, Citadel/Museum) and to irrigate the old town centre. The old paths linking the farms on the heights of the city to the old centre then appeared to be one of the axes to be put forward in conjunction with the agricultural theme in order to better understand how Bastia was able to take advantage of a rich and irrigated land and a location in the heart of the Tyrrhenian space to become the economic capital of Corsica. In the framework of the GRITACCESS programme, the town has decided to open up a former agricultural wasteland at the gates of the old town centre, the Guadellu site, in the form of a pathway, and to complete its existing signposting by adding sites illustrating Bastia's cultural and economic anchorage in the Tyrrhenian area. QR codes give access to an application, the SCOPRISTORIA, which allows visitors to geolocate themselves, to create their own tour and to access the Italian version of the texts.

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Type Itinéraire : roaming

Thème : History