Carte de Alta Rocca images

The Alta Rocca has one of the 4 sites with the Corsican Massif Bavella needles, also called the "Corsican Dolomites", these tips pink porphyry drain a considerable flow of tourists coming to the practice of the mountain or just point of view.

Carte de Alta Rocca images

Architecture:

The village structure bundle takes different forms depending on the type of terrain: village crest, hill, on a hillside villages strongholds.

We are in the heart of the country granite is the material traditionally used for building, housing the crudest to the most luxurious.

Traditional forms of Alta Rocca are simple yet elegant, made of volumes higher than wide, the stone blocks are paired alongside with or without grouting in the shell, the openings are narrow, exposed stone walls (except the noble house coated with lime), the cover tiles.

The presence of villages with high and typical architecture is the first element of the built heritage provides first contact and first impression of disorientation also for the tourist.

The second element consists of the prehistoric heritage:

The first visible signs of civilization are dated in the Early Bronze Age (1800 BC), these are the megalithic circular: "i Casteddi.

Two of these "casteddi" are highly visited "Cucuruzzu" on the town of Levie which receives over 22,000 visitors paying a visit organized, "Araghju" on the town of San Gavino di Carbini whose attendance unhandled ( a project is underway) is around 50 000 people.

A museum of prehistory in Levie exposes objects resulting from the various excavations, it receives over 5000 visitors per year.

The Middle Ages has left a strong imprint on the territory of powerful lords who dominated throughout the South of Corsica have built many Romanesque churches with the most notable of those Carbini of Quenza and Poggio Tallano.

In Sainte Lucie de Tallano that you can visit the largest religious building medieval southern Corsica: the St. Francis Convent (an enhancement project is underway) founded by the Count della Rocca Rinuccio the 16th century.

Culture and traditions:

The Alta Rocca is a sanctuary area of ​​secular and sacred folk traditions.

The most interesting aspects of the local culture are preserved today in fundamental motivations of tourism demand.

Indeed, this area is sanctuary "paradoxically" a place where the tradition of hospitality is very strong.

Visitors will surely find this relationship to another, that exchange that sometimes desperately seeking on the coastal fringe.

Another interesting aspect of local identity lies in a strong culture with gourmet preparations of local production bases of quality.

Quality of reception and restaurant give the Alta Rocca positioning that will interest an audience in search of authenticity.

The Balearic Islands and Mallorca in accurate accumulation tourism is concentrated on the coasts, admiring by the sun and beaches. There is a able territorial alterity with the hinterland which contributes little to the day-tripper who suffered an departure of bounded bodies admiring by the bread-and-butter action of the coast. This after-effects in a bare apple in the hinterland and a baby abasement of the rural ancestry abandoned. The catechism is added of a tourism of quality, based on the advance of ability and ancestry of the archipelago, which would be another and / or accompaniment the accepted action of the "sol y playa '.

Based on this observation, the actuality of a acceptable rural ancestry and the attendance of amateur adolescent bodies marginalized by the ascendant approach of development, the Council of Mallorca has set up bounded development accomplishments which amalgamate the account / Ancestry analysis and recovery, including training in ancestry tourism best ill-fitted to the problems of the archipelago.

In Mallorca, the breadth covered by the program-REVPAR MEDOCC covers allotment of the age-old crusade avenue that connects two alien towns about 90 km on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Tramontana: The road-Artà Lluc. The pilot breadth covers alone the aboriginal allotment of the alley that stretches from Santa Margalida Artà.

The Council of Mallorca wants to advance ancestry trails forth the alley to Arta Lluc:

- Initiate a re-appropriation of places by the citizenry

- Proposing a new action of day-tripper discovery