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Air Corsica to the Birthplace of Napeleon

Air Corsica Flight Review is part of the Still The Best Trip Report.


After fumbling around the French Riviera (see Guns & Butter: French Riviera Travel Guide (Poor Man’s Edition)), it was time to visit a new ‘country’, Corsica. The only way to get from Nice to Figari is on Air Corsica. The flight time is only 55 minutes.

a plane with a man standing next to it

a blue cup with a drink in it

TPOL’s Trivia: Napoleone Buonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on 15 August 1769. He was the second of eight children born to Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer descended from Tuscan nobility, and his young wife Maria-Letizia Ramolino. At the time of Napoleon’s birth, Corsica had been ceded to the French by the Genoese.

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