Pope Francis’ one-day visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday, two days before his 88th birthday, puts a dual focus on the Mediterranean, highlighting local traditions of popular piety on the ...

Calvi’s famous fort backs onto miles and miles of Corsica’s unmistakeable sawtooth ridges - Westend61 Phoenician Greeks arrived in Corsica the 6th century BC and named the island “Kallistè”, meaning ...

The Holy See on Saturday confirmed the rumors that Pope Francis will undertake a one-day apostolic journey to Corsica next month — marking the first-ever papal visit to the island most famous for ...

AJACCIO, Corsica – The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles (kilometers) of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful — and valuable — ...

President Macron will begin his visit on Wednesday with a "republican dinner" with local elected officials in the island's capital Ajaccio, before a much-anticipated speech to the Corsican Assembly on ...