It took 20,000 labourers two decades to build this train line across the Mediterranean's most mountainous island, and it remains a timeless way to experience Corsica.
The island of Corsica blends the rugged peaks of the Mediterranean's most mountainous island with azure beaches, colourful historic towns, lush woods and high plains. No wonder the ancient Greeks named it Kalliste . Even the hard-to-please French – who acquired the island in a still-controversial deal with Italy's Genoese Republic in the 1760s – call it L'Île de Beauté .
Travelling in the older wood-panelled carriages, meanwhile, offers a cut-price dash of Orient Express vintage glamour. Add the network's array of"request stops" where, with a quick word to the conductor when boarding, adventurous passengers can be dropped off at remote inland spots for call-of-the-wild hikes, or discover little beach hideaways free of the resort town tourist throngs.
Two years after creating the Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel built the Pont du Vecchio viaduct to carry Corsica's Little Train Intrigued by the train's history and how it represents Corsica's unique blend of brawn and beauty, I few into Ajaccio to ride the rails for a week before flying out of Bastia. My entire train odyssey cost less than the price of a single tank of petrol, while carrying me from the heart of one town to another in laidback style.Tucked away amid an amphitheatre of jagged peaks in the mountainous heart of the island, Corte is Corsica's physical and historic centre.
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