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L'Île-Rousse
L'Île-Rousse (French pronunciation: [lil ʁus]; Corsican: Lìsula, [ˈlizula], or Isula Rossa, [ˈizula ˈrɔssa]; Italian: Isola Rossa, [ˈiːzola ˈrossa]; lit. 'Red Island') is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
It was founded in 1758 by Pasquale Paoli to create a port that would not be in the hands of the Genoese (such as Calvi). As Italian was until 1848 the administrative language of Corsica, the town was originally named Isola Rossa (Red Island) from the eponymous reddish color of a rocky islet that served as a natural harbor.
Along with Saint-Florent and Tox, it is one of only three communes in the département to have a French name — all the others have kept their Italian names despite the repeated demands of Corsican nationalists to change the names of all communes to their native Corsican names.
Inhabited since very ancient times (between 5000-3000 BC), l'Île-Rousse was in 1000 BC a small, prosperous town called Agilla; it was dependent on Tyre in Phoenicia. Destroyed by the Phoenician fleet of Calaris (Galeria), Agilla came under Roman rule as Rubico Rocega (red rock) until the 4th century AD. Being so close to the sea, it was threatened by pirates and other potential enemies, and was not inhabited for several centuries except for fishermen and peasants who lived on the products of the sea and earth around the villages of Santa Reparata and Monticello.
In the 17th century, merchants from Santa-Reparata-di-Balagna established shops to trade by sea with the coastal villages of the Balagne, Nebbio, and the west of the Cap Corse. About 1759, Pasquale Paoli, who often came to Balagne, decided to equip Corsica with a port in the northwest of the island to try to cut the sea traffic between Genoa and Calvi. His plans prepared, he persuaded the Balagne government, sitting in Algajola, to authorize him to create a fort protecting the port (the Scalu) on 10 December 1765. L’Île-Rousse was born from this decision.
L'Île-Rousse has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk) closely bordering on a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in L'Île-Rousse is 16.9 °C (62.4 °F). The average annual rainfall is 473.8 mm (18.65 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.9 °C (76.8 °F), and lowest in February, at around 10.4 °C (50.7 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in L'Île-Rousse was 39.6 °C (103.3 °F) on 5 July 1993; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −1.3 °C (29.7 °F) on 28 December 1996.
Built on a bay bounded to the northwest by the rocky islets of red porphyry which give it its name, and to the south by an immaculate white sand beach, l’Île-Rousse is presented to the tourist in all its beauty, extending westwards from the sea to the hill of the Sémaphore and the col de Fogata.
The old town of Pascal Paoli, le Père de la Patrie (the Father of the Fatherland), is made up of paved streets, almost rectilinear and oriented north-south. From the quays of the commercial port installed on 3 of the 6 small islands, the fishing port and the bridges which link the harbor complex to the coast and the market with its twenty one columns, the fortifications and the houses of the old city grew over the years, from 1765 into the first half of the 19th century.
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L'Île-Rousse
L'Île-Rousse (French pronunciation: [lil ʁus]; Corsican: Lìsula, [ˈlizula], or Isula Rossa, [ˈizula ˈrɔssa]; Italian: Isola Rossa, [ˈiːzola ˈrossa]; lit. 'Red Island') is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
It was founded in 1758 by Pasquale Paoli to create a port that would not be in the hands of the Genoese (such as Calvi). As Italian was until 1848 the administrative language of Corsica, the town was originally named Isola Rossa (Red Island) from the eponymous reddish color of a rocky islet that served as a natural harbor.
Along with Saint-Florent and Tox, it is one of only three communes in the département to have a French name — all the others have kept their Italian names despite the repeated demands of Corsican nationalists to change the names of all communes to their native Corsican names.
Inhabited since very ancient times (between 5000-3000 BC), l'Île-Rousse was in 1000 BC a small, prosperous town called Agilla; it was dependent on Tyre in Phoenicia. Destroyed by the Phoenician fleet of Calaris (Galeria), Agilla came under Roman rule as Rubico Rocega (red rock) until the 4th century AD. Being so close to the sea, it was threatened by pirates and other potential enemies, and was not inhabited for several centuries except for fishermen and peasants who lived on the products of the sea and earth around the villages of Santa Reparata and Monticello.
In the 17th century, merchants from Santa-Reparata-di-Balagna established shops to trade by sea with the coastal villages of the Balagne, Nebbio, and the west of the Cap Corse. About 1759, Pasquale Paoli, who often came to Balagne, decided to equip Corsica with a port in the northwest of the island to try to cut the sea traffic between Genoa and Calvi. His plans prepared, he persuaded the Balagne government, sitting in Algajola, to authorize him to create a fort protecting the port (the Scalu) on 10 December 1765. L’Île-Rousse was born from this decision.
L'Île-Rousse has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk) closely bordering on a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in L'Île-Rousse is 16.9 °C (62.4 °F). The average annual rainfall is 473.8 mm (18.65 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.9 °C (76.8 °F), and lowest in February, at around 10.4 °C (50.7 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in L'Île-Rousse was 39.6 °C (103.3 °F) on 5 July 1993; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −1.3 °C (29.7 °F) on 28 December 1996.
Built on a bay bounded to the northwest by the rocky islets of red porphyry which give it its name, and to the south by an immaculate white sand beach, l’Île-Rousse is presented to the tourist in all its beauty, extending westwards from the sea to the hill of the Sémaphore and the col de Fogata.
The old town of Pascal Paoli, le Père de la Patrie (the Father of the Fatherland), is made up of paved streets, almost rectilinear and oriented north-south. From the quays of the commercial port installed on 3 of the 6 small islands, the fishing port and the bridges which link the harbor complex to the coast and the market with its twenty one columns, the fortifications and the houses of the old city grew over the years, from 1765 into the first half of the 19th century.