Calvi Pool Villas in Corsica

Author: Dorte Holm Jensen

By train all the way through Europe, via Florence to Livorno at the Italian seashore, covered quite a foreign terrain, & filled the brain with countless visual impressions & food for thoughts.

We entered Bastia by boat after a restless night in a budget Italian hotel room-mating with myriads of cockroaches.

Driving across the Island from Bastia to Calvi lurked out the right holiday enthusiasm. The pleasing smell of lavender sneaked in through the open windows & welcomed us to this wonderful island.

For 3 weeks we slept in a tiny tent in walking distance from the the coast. We lived essentially on flutes & raw vegetables, spend the days floating & sunbathing & dancing the nights away in Calvi.

We returned home a month later bronzed by the sun, slimmed & full of getupandgo & inspiration.

Having experienced a vacation on the cheap makes it so much easier to pay respects to the advantages of renting a Calvi villa for a family holiday. Many of the rental villas in Calvi has private pool & are very luxurious & tastefully furnished.

Did I touch on the beaches? They are long, white, tempting & exceptionally clean. Furthermore the wind makes even the hottest month bearable by the seaside, as long as you give protection to your head from the constant sharp sun. A cotton hat, that you can soak in the sea regularly, keeps your head cooled off. There is much to be said for a Calvi Beach Holiday!

Calvi has no more than 6000 inhabitants. It is placed on the North-West coast of the island – 59 km from Bastia. The town has ferry connections with the French mainland (Marseille, Nice, and Toulon) and luxurious yachts visit the harbor. Calvi is a charming old fishing town and fishing is still of some importance, even though tourism is now the big earner.

You will not be bored stiff with Calvi. You can follow the world go by from a seaside pavement cafe, shop fashionable clothes in the ancient part of the town, eat gourmet dinners at the different restaurants or drop in on the piano bar in the medieval Citadel for live music.

Water sport is not hard to find in the neighborhood and on the island as a whole you can go horse-riding , hike, walk the mountains & even play golf.

From June to September the Citadel houses art exhibitions by professional local artists from across the whole island of Corsica..

At the end of June each year The Calvi Jazz Festival attracts celebrities from the Jazz scene & you can be present at concerts in the Citadel & jam sessions on the Quay Landry.

“Calvi On The Rocks” occur every year in July. It consists of electronic music & a digital arts festival with nightly concert in the Fortress.

I hope you have a wonderful trip to Corsica – the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte – & whether you select a hostel, a hotel or a villa vacation in Calvi – I am absolutely sure you will take pleasure in the charming town & the delightful surroundings.

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Please visit Finca Fantastica Travel and the web page Corsica – French Villa Vacation to view Pool Villas and resorts in Corsica.