Calvi, Haute-Corse

[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.

Panorama of Calvi and its Gulf seen from Notre-Dame de La Serra
Port of Calvi