[3] According to legend, Christopher Columbus supposedly came from Calvi, which at the time was part of the Genoese Empire.

Because the often subversive elements of the island gave its inhabitants a bad reputation, he would have been expected to mask his exact birthplace.

[7] The motto originates from 1553 when Calvi repulsed two attacks by the French and Turks,[6] aided by Corsican exiles.

[8] During the war with Revolutionary France, British forces under Admiral Nelson and Lieutenant-General Charles Stuart captured the city in the Siege of Calvi in 1794.

[6] The economy of Calvi is essentially based on summer tourism, which started in 1950 due to the pioneering efforts of Vladimir Raitz.