TO VISIT TO AJACCIO

Dock of the Citadel (Jetée de the Citadelle)
From the extreme point of this dock, along 200 ms, a beautiful sight enjoys him on the sea and on a part of the gulf of Ajaccio. Here the is found I bring tourist and of fishing, that the dock of the Cappuccinis separates from the I bring commercial. To follow the boulevard Danielle Casanova that it coasts along the fortitude. To the n° 18, house native of Danielle Casanova, dead supporter to Auschwitz in 1943.
Church of Sant'Erasmo (Église St-Érasme)
And' the ancient chapel of the college of the Jesuits, built in 1617. In 1656 the Elderly ones, reunited in this sanctuary, Ajaccios consecrated to Ours Mrs. of the Mercy, in the intent to preserve the city from an epidemic of plague. Become chapel of the real college after the expulsion of the Jesuits, the church it was closed during the Revolution. The Direttorio of the district did the center of the town offices of it. In 1815 the sanctuary, devoted to Sant'Erasmo, the sailors' patron, ridivenne place of cult. And' from here that every year, on June 2, part a picturesque procession, during which the statue of the saint is actually brought to the sea, accompanied by the civil and military authorities by the clergy and by a devoted and festive crowd. To the inside they are preserved models of ships, three beautiful cristi on processional crosses, a statue of Sant'Erasmo surrounded by little angel and a series of cloaks and dalmatiche of the pontifical service. To observe the casula violet color of the cardinal Fesch, manufactured with a precious cloth offered by the shah to Napoleone.
Cathedral
Built beginning from 1582 in Renaissance style in the area in which the ancient church of Saint Cross rose, it introduces a very simple façade. Fearing that the jobs excessively extended him, the bishop Giuseppe Moscardi made to reduce the dimensions of the building planned by pope Gregorio XIII architect Giacomo of the Door. The construction of the cathedral was let from the bishop Giulio Giustiniani finished that, as he/she remembers a plate on the portal of entry, it regretted not to have been able to realize the native project of this church, that would have wanted greater. In the month of July of the 1771 Napoleone, to the two year-old age, it received to the right the baptism to the baptismal source of the entry. The bronze crowning that surmounts the tub of marble is of 1900. The I° pillar to the left some entrance brings a plate on which the last words are engraved pronounced by the emperor to Sant'Elena April 29 th 1821: "If my dead body will be exiled from Paris as you/he/she has been him/it my person, I desire to be buried next to my ancestors in the cathedral of Ajaccio, in the Corsica." The grave of the family Bonaparte was found, in fact, in the cathedral before the construction of the imperial chapel in 1855. Crossing the aisle on the left a chapel is found built in the XVI sec. from Pierpaolo of they adorn, with a painting of Delacroix: Madonna of the Sacred Heart. The second chapel, devoted to Ours Mrs. of the Mercy, patrona of Ajaccio, an imposing Virgo of marble of the XVIII entertains sec. The last chapel is consecrate to the Madonna of the Rosary, whose mysteries are illustrated from fifteen quadrettis of the XVII sec. The three wood statues policromos represent St. Domenico, the Virgo with his/her/their Child, Saint Rosa from Lima. The greatest altar in white marble, surmounted by four columns twisted them of black marble, the church you/he/she was given to in 1811 from Elisa Bacciocchi, sister of Napoleone and princess of Lucca and Lead. The chapel to the right some choir contains a shaped crucifix. Above the false transetto: painted dome to trompe the oeil. To observe on the right a beautiful Virgo of white marble of the XVIII sec., surmounted by a canopy with elegant draperies and, set to a square pillar of the aisle, the pulpit to form of wine glass.
Place Maréchal Foch
This beautiful plaza shaded by palms and coasted along, on the South side, from small restaurants, it opens in front of the I bring. On top of the plaza, to the n°s 7-10, avenue Sérafini, the small statue of the Madonnuccia or Our Mrs. of the Mercy, you/he/she is exposed in the niche of a building that in the evening is illuminated. From 1656 it is patrona of the city and his/her party you/he/she is celebrated on March 18: illuminated city, put solemn in the cathedral, procession in the roads. The statue of white marble of Bonaparte Primo Consul, realized by Laboureur, it overhangs the gushing fountain of the Four Leos, work of Maglioli, painter and sculptor of Ajaccio. On the left, in the low part of the plaza, the town building rises, that entertains the firm of stay and the Napoleonic museum.
Imperial chapel
Of Renaissance style was made to build in 1857 from Napoleone III in stone of St-Florent for the burial of the imperial family. The great dome to trompe the oeil, painted by an architect of Ajaccio: Gerolamo Maglioli, and the glass door are decorated with the weapons of the cardinal Fesch. A beautiful Coptic Christ, gift of the general Bonaparte to his/her/their mother on the occasion of its return from Egypt, adorns the greatest altar. In the situated circular crypt under the dome they are buried: Letitia Ramolino, been born to Ajaccio in 1750 and dead to Rome to the 86 year-old age, Charles Maria Bonaparte (1746-1785), the cardinal Fesch (1763-1839), Charles Luciano, great child of Luciano Bonaparte, Napoleone Carlo, 3° child of Charles Luciano and his/her two daughters Zenaide and Eugenia. To the two sides of the crypt, in the staircase of access, the princess Clementina of Belgium and the prince Vittorio is interred, dead to Bruxelles in 1926.
Museum Fesch
It entertains the most important collection of Italian paintings preserved in France, after that of the Louvre, further to works of French and Spanish school. It enters you from the courtyard of honor that corresponds to the 2° level (temporary exposures). To the 3° level paintings of Four hundred Italian can be admired, particularly of Jacopo Sellajo, Lawrence of Creeds, Giovanni Bellini of the Venetian (notable his/her Madonna with his/her/their Child) school, and of the Botticelli (Madonna of the Garland). Among the works XVI sec. two cloths of Venetian school are noticed: Injures of the Veronese and the second Man from the glove of Titian. To the 4° level works of the XVII sec is exposed., while the 1° level entertains a section devoted to the imperial family.