Coordinates: 42°34′07″N 8°45′25″E / 42.5686111111, 8.75694444444

Commune of Calvi
Calvi
City flag	City coat of arms
Motto: Calvi Semper Fidelis
The city, view from the citadel
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Corse
Department	Haute-Corse
Arrondissement	Calvi
Canton	Calvi
Intercommunality	Calvi Balagne
Mayor	Ange Santini (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	0 m–700 m (avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Haute-Corse (Corsica suprana ( English: Upper Corsica) is a French department. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Calvi is an arrondissement of France located in the Haute-Corse department, in the Territorial collectivity of Corsica The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 81 m)
Land area¹	31. 20 km²
Population² (1999)	5,177
- Density	165. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	2B050/ 20260
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E

Calvi is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Haute-Corse (Corsica suprana ( English: Upper Corsica) is a French department. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Corsica (Corse Corsican and Italian: Corsica) is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily it is the chief city of the Canton of Calvi, which contains besides itself one other commune, Lumio. Lumio is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Calvi is also the capital of the Arrondissement of Calvi, which contains, beside the Canton of Calvi, three other cantons: L'Île-Rousse, Belgodère and Calenzana. L'Île-Rousse ( Isula Rossa in Corsican) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Belgodère is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Calenzana is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. ^[1]

There is a legend that Christopher Columbus was from Calvi, which at the time was part of the Genoese empire. Christopher Columbus (1451 &ndash May 20 1506 was an Italian Navigator, colonizer Because the often subversive elements of the island gave its inhabitants a bad reputation, he would have masked his exact heritage.

The 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2 REP) of the French Foreign Legion is based in Calvi, housed in its citadel. The 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes 2e REP is an Airborne Commando regiment in the French Foreign Legion. A citadel is a fortress for protecting a Town, sometimes incorporating a Castle.

Geography

Calvi is located on the northwest coast of the island of Corsica, 95 km from Bastia and 24 km from L'Île-Rousse. Corsica (Corse Corsican and Italian: Corsica) is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily Bastia ( French & Corsican: Bastia) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island L'Île-Rousse ( Isula Rossa in Corsican) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of It is the fifth-largest commune in Corsica; however, the arrondissement is the smallest.

Administration

Calvi is a sub-prefecture of the Haute-Corse department. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department.

History

The motto, "Calvi semper fidelis," ("Calvi Always Faithful") referred originally to its loyaly to the Republic of Genoa. The Most Serene Republic of Genoa (Repubblica di Genova was an independent state in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast from the 11th century

Economy

The economy of Calvi is essentially based on summer tourism, which started in 1950 due to the pioneering efforts of Vladimir Raitz. Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel Vladimir Gavrilovich Raitz (born May 23 1922) is the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group, who pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad The Ste-Catherine International Airport of Calvi and the Xavier Colonna Port ease the access for a number of tourists.

Notes

1. ^ France, le trésor des régions: Département: Haute-Corse (html). Retrieved on 2008-05-06. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. (French).

See also

External links

• Official website (French)
• Wikitravel
• A presentation of Calvi and its hotels
• photos from Fleur de Corse

Panorama

The port, view from the Citadel