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Entertainment: Every summer, at the beginning of August, there is a music festival in Erbalunga with famous artists, right in the middle of old streets and fishermen's stone-roofed houses.
Religious rites: Easter is characterized by the procession of religious brotherhoods up to the Saint Erasmus church or the Granitola. The people walk in a symbolic spiral according to a pagan rite that goes back to the mists of time.
2 kilometres south, the Notre-Dame-de-Lavasina basilica is a pilgrimage place which is highly frequented by Corsican Christians every 8 th of September.
Must see: in the valley above Erbalunga the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges chapel, built in the Middle Ages, with beautiful dated frescos.
Strolls: Visit of the village, Genoese tower bombed by the Royale cannons little before the Revolution, marina, houses of notables… nice pictures guaranteed! On the heights, abandoned hamlets such as Petre Scritte (Written Stones), the ruins of the lord Gentile castle, or the villages on the little frequented panoramic road, some inns and pizzerias where you'll be welcomed unpretentiously.
Urban tourism: Bastia is the 68th French town to have obtained the “Art and History” label for its citadel, its museum, the old port, the baroque churches and the market. 13, Rue Napoleon was home to Bonaparte when the republican circle gave him a safe-conduct to Toulon which maybe was the start of his destiny.
Beaches: If you don't wish to sunbathe at the hotel, close to its warmed swimming pool, you can go down to the flat rocks of the Mediterranean 50 metres away, and dive into this clear sea to observe the diversity of submarine depths; you can also go to the village's beach or to the small protected Cap Corse creeks.
Sports: VTT rental at the hotel (Rack lent for free). Diving centre 3 kilometres away, Sea kayaks rental at the hotel, jogging in the forest next to the hotel, free tennis court 200 metres away, riding school, canyoning (see reception).
Rambling: from the hotel or little above (by car), a signalled path will guide you to the top of 1,305 metre high Monte Stello (the Mount of the Stars), the highest mountain in the Cap Corse from where you can see Elba island or both shores of the cape. You can visit the Finocchiarola natural reserve or do the fabulous ramble from Barcaggio on the Sentier des Douaniers (Customs Officers Path) and its heavenly sand beach 30 kms north of Erbalunga.
Tourism: drive around the cape with its marinas: Porticciolo, Macinaggio, Centuri, Nonza, Saint-Florent and Patrimonio, the antique vineyard where you can taste these several times awarded wines before actually purchasing them. The Cap Corse is an island within the island where the preserved sea, mountain and nature unify in harmony to offer an incomparable lifestyle. The Castagniccia (30 kilometres south of Bastia), a huge chestnut grove hiding its villages among which Morosaglia, cradle of the famous Pascal Paoli (1725_1807), founding father of the Corsican Nation ruled by the world's first constitution in November 1755, giving the right of vote to women, becoming an object of curiosity to European courts and the enthusiasm of philosophers from the Enlightenment, and which inspired the American Consitution. Aleria, a roman city, its museum and ruins
Corte, previous Corsican capital and the Restonica valley
The wonderful sites in the Cap Corse…
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