06-19-2022 08:47 AM - edited 06-19-2022 08:49 AM
Photo 1: Menhir Filitosa V dates back to about 3,500 years ago
I have to be honest, I had other stops planned for the CAMERE D'ARIA tour in Corsica. It is very difficult to make changes, in life and also in travel, but after examining the route, its difficulties, the fact that I would have to lose a day even to recover the car, since the Corsican railways do not carry bicycles, that I would have I had to give up seeing interesting things, like the one I'm going to tell you about, and not least the awareness not to exaggerate because we are of a certain age, all these reasons added together led me to change the program. After dedicating a day to the recovery of the car in Bastia, with a train journey in the middle of the Corsican mountains, we leave Ajaccio for Portovecchio. It was going to be our last 3 stages on the bike, but I quickly realized I had made a good choice. Starting from Ajaccio, you also leave the sea and begin to climb, actually along roads with little traffic. It is a continuous ups and downs within Corsica, with steep slopes. Few houses, no village, only woods and the sea that can only be seen for some time, far away, when we are near Porto Pollo.
Photo 2: Filitosa : the hill of the tower with the source of water at its feet
Photo 3: The millenary olive tree with the menhirs arranged under its branches
Instead of taking the detour to the seaside resort, we take to Filitosa. A plain with slight undulations, cultivated, where the olive tree reigns supreme. The generosity of this land is well understood, which also becomes the cause of the archaeological discovery of Filitosa. It is in fact a farmer, who while working the land stumbles upon the first discovery and from there following, the searches of the archaeologists lead to the discovery of the statues that we can admire today. We park and, apart from a group that leaves by bus, a dozen cars in all, in such a large place there will certainly be no danger of stepping on your feet! The history of the place and its discovery is interesting. The owner of the land, Caesars, found the first stone warriors in 1946. His workers would like to make stones for the farm fence, but stated that he had never put any chains on any man and would not even put them in stone. Years pass and the discovery is attested by the young archaeologist Grosjan, who through numerous battles conducted together with his now friend Cesari, against bureaucracy and superstitions, manages to make Filitosa known as the fulcrum of human settlements in Corsica from about 6000 BC, up to advent of the Romans. Grosjan promised Cesari that nothing would move from Filitosa and he did. Against the bureaucracy Cesari took on all the costs of excavation and research, until the refusal, several years later, of a contribution of million francs by the Ministry of Culture, and still today the Cesari family is the local financier.
Photo 4: The hill of the tower and the houses of the prehistoric village dating back to 6000 BC.
Photo 5: A Torrean woman inside her tower 🙂
Photo 6: In my opinion the most significant artistically, the facial features are remarkable
Photo 7: Menhir in the central monument which in all probability was a celebratory altar
Photo 9: Cri and the highest menhir under the millenary olive tree
Photo 10: Winged dragon or dinosaur? What do you think?
Photo 11: The two of us together with the tallest warrior
Photo 12: The two of us together with the lowest warrior
Photo 14: The Museum
Photo 15: The Museum
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06-20-2022 05:54 PM
@plavarda posso dire che inizio inquietante? Il video intendo 😱 conta che ho su le cuffie a palla 😀 Per fortuna i sorrisi della tua Cri hanno dato una nota allegra 🌞 Sito molto interessante, per fortuna avete inserito questa tappa nel vostro viaggio arricchendo così il vostro bagaglio di conoscenza e il nostro di conseguenza 🙏 La foto 9 è estremamente spiritosa, quella dell'ulivo è fantastica, per la foto 10 direi un drago ma è una scelta di cuore perché io adoro i draghi! L'ingresso è gratuito? Sembra di aver visto un pó di stato di abbandono in alcuni punti.. È sempre una sensazione indescrivibile calpestare certi luoghi, percepire delle emozioni che arrivano dal passato.
Grazie! Ben fatto ragazzi! E continua a raccontare mi raccomando!!
Un abbraccio
06-21-2022 04:43 AM
@PattyBlack voleva essere un riferimento al film 2001 Odissea nello spazio, una musica trionfante di introduzione, come lo è nell'opera di Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra 🙂 Mi sa che mi sono montato la testa 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 A parte gli scherzi volevo far impressione, e l'ho fatta a quanto pare. Ci mancava solo lo scimmione che spacca le ossa del mammuth ed ero apposto!!! Comunque anch'io opto per il drago!!! Comunque posto unico! MI sa che ne cercherò altri, perchè in giro per il mondo ce ne sono molti ed hanno una energia tutta speciale. Grazie Patrizia, prossimo racconto Bonifacio a breve!
Un bacione
Paolo
06-21-2022 06:14 PM
😄😄 si hai impressionato @plavarda ma in senso buono ovviamente. Il video è fantastico e la musica è azzeccatissima solo che non me l'aspettavo!
Ciao Paolo grazie per la tua spiritosaggine ci tieni allegri! Racconto successivo letto! Sono rimasta letteralmente sbaccalita sia dalla bellezza del posto che dalla storia. Ne hai ancora da raccontare vero? 🙂🙂🙏
Un bacione a te!
Ciaoo
06-21-2022 07:59 PM
There are giant sculpture, Paolo @plavarda I like the way you have Cri in opening the video. Good job Cri!
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06-22-2022 04:06 AM
dearest @Erna_LaBeau and @PattyBlack life is more beautiful when your partner is also complicit in what you do. Traveling, joking, making dreams come true, living, everything becomes possible if there is complicity between two lovers! Do not you think?
A kiss
Paolo
06-25-2022 06:58 AM - edited 06-25-2022 06:59 AM
Wow...
The intro scene... Cri walking in with the background music... Excellent!
6000, 3000, 2000, 1500 years' stories - mind blowing.
Congratulations, dear friend @plavarda.
Excellent photos... 👍👍👍♥️
This post is very specific.
Thanks for sharing this.
The video I have commented in the YouTube.
Best wishes
PS :
Greetings to Cri too.
🙏💐
06-25-2022 08:25 AM
@TravellerG dearest, the contact with those stones was very exciting, I felt those living stones, as if those statues were breathing, as if they had absorbed the breath of the men who carved them. A wonderful feeling.
A hug
Paolo
06-28-2022 03:32 AM
"... as if they had absorbed the breath of the men who carved them..."
I agree with you... My dear friend @plavarda
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08-24-2022 11:42 AM
Ooh , the old civilizations mostly made this symbols according to their vision which formed denending on some legends descentant from their old generations until reach to eave and Adam, this symbols shows or description to the spiritual life or the other life after they put the dead bodies or description to the future of the life and the planet,,,
This time 3500 mostly the same time of the Pharos, but you know what , I think Mayan and tept and tasiley were older ,
I like your show my dear ,
Personly now almost became sure you old fan at the legends and your wife too , is she ? 🙂 Thanks for your share 👍