Seek an escape with our travel guide to the best boutique hotels on the rugged, mountainous island of Corsica. The birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsica has a rocky coastline surrounded by emerald seas, dotted with picturesque fishing villages, and a wild, windswept interior of breathtaking beauty.
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Corsica | Martin O'Brien | France, Corsica, Corsica
Ancient mountain villages huddle on impossibly narrow ridges or perch on hilltops, with dizzying, twisting roads that spool down from rugged highlands into sun-drenched valleys ribbed with vineyards
Corsica | Daniel Scott | France, Corsica, Corsica
"The train is never late," jokes the beady-eyed black-bearded station master as we wait in the middle of the Corsican mountains for it to arrive, "but the timetable is often a little wrong."