\b0 At the southern tip of Corsica, facing Sardinia, the old city of Bonifacio is built on an elonga
ted headland, a sort of long cliff whose base is being undermined by the sea. An exceptional strategic site that has seen many conflicts and sieges, as its imposing citadel bears witness, Bonifacio also speaks of the daily life of its people, over the co
urse of the centuries, in the old houses and narrow streets around the church of Sainte-Marie-Majeure. Some of the city's inhabitants still speak a language of their own, peculiar to Bonifacio and the last vestige of the ancient Genoese dialect of the Mi