Magnificent «end of the world», Bonifacio has both a harbour and a upper town. The marina , a port constructed at the bottom of a 1,500 metre fjord, is a safe haven for boats, closed off by a narrow bottleneck and protected from high tides by a 60-m..

Perched on the rock overlooking the sea, upper Bonifacio is made up of the medieval old town and the citadel. Created in the 19th C, the access road splits at the Roman column. The left incline leads to the old town via a tunnel. The old, narrow stre..

At the tope off the Pass is a modest chapel, built in the place where the last victim of the plague of 1528 died. This viewpoint gives a very wide view over the sea towards Sardinia, the bastion and the Marine. To the left, the Grain de sable wit..

The boat skirts the cliffs that are between 60 and 90m high. Horizontal and oblique stratifications show how the sea currents changed direction during sedimentation. The high limestone cliffs are punctuated by caves, including those of Sdragonato a..

The Place du Marché provides access to the Manichella belvedere, with its superb view of the port to the left, and to the right the entrance to the port of Bonifacio, the Grain de Sable rock and the Sardinian coast just across the strait.

This chuch should was supposedly completed in 1343 by the Dominicans on the site of a former Templar church, and is one of the rare examples of Gothic architecture in Corsica. The campanile with its octagonal upper levels and crenelles is strikingly ..

The port quarter, placed under the protection of St Erasmus, the patron saint of fishermen, stretches along the southern dock and is dominated by a great bastion. Hotels, restaurants, cafés and shops bring the whole area to life, especially in summer..

When they pass to the other world, the people of Bonifacio won't feel like they are in a strange place - their cemetery is a little town of its own with its «main street» and high funeral chapels pressed together much like the houses in the town. And..

A great diversity of landscapes with sandy beaches, little ports such as Gurgazu and cliffs. The public beaches of Maora and Santa Manza are pleasant and popular with windsurfers.

The island of Lavezzi and a hundred or so islets and reefs form an archipelago around 4km from the Pointe de Sperono, southeast of Bonifacio. The French part of the archipelago is now a natural reserve with restricted access to protect flora and faun..

The first of the Two Emperors was Charles Quint who stayed at number 4 in 1541 when returning from an expedition to Algiers. The second was, of course, Napoléon Bonaparte who stayed at number 7 in 1793 while preparing to sail to Sardinia.

This paved street with its flying buttresses runs along the church of Sainte-Marie-Majeure.

This street runs along the Vestiges gardens, where one can still see the remains of the old fortifications, destroyed during the siege of 1533 by the French and Turks.

This churhc, with its square clocktower, was built in the 14th C, but has lost the purity of its style with multiple renovations. There is an accoladed façade, a vast inner courtyard, and a loggia as an entrance. Beneath this, the elegant Pisa-styel ..

The former Palais du Podestat (the residence of the city’s magistrate), a building with medieval-style arcades, stands opposite Ste-Marie-Majeure church. To the right (rue du Palais), the limestone façade of the Palazzu Publicu, the former city hall,..

You will see four plinths on this square, indicating the place of grain silos that held 5,000hl of wheat. Opposite the Porte de Gênes is Rue du Corps-de-Garde - a good view onto the chevet of Sainte-Marie church.

This memorial depicts some of the great events in the history of Bonifacio, such as the visits of Charles V and Napoleon Bonaparte, and the sinking of La Sémillante in the Lavezzi islands. A copy of the “Dame de Bonifacio” and the fossilised skelet..

This bastion watched over the Porte de Gênes , the only entrance to the town until the 19th C. Eight gates and a drawbridge led into Place d'Armes. It was the centrepiece of the 2.5km of ramparts of which several defence towers still remain.

Its name gives away its Arabic influences - the fondaco is the Corsican version of the Arabic fondouk, a shop and an inn.

This hospice was founded in the 13th C and is the base of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross and houses a piece of the real cross.