Regional sacred-site guide
Sacred sites in Corse-du-Sud
Explore 13 sacred places in Corse-du-Sud, France, with a regional map and links to detailed site guides.
Traditions in Corse-du-Sud
Site types in Corse-du-Sud
Showing 1-13 of 13 sites in this regional guide
Araghju
Corse-du-Sud, France
Araghju is a Torrean casteddu on a hilltop promontory above the Porto-Vecchio coastal plain — a Bronze Age circular enclosure with walls still standing three to five...
Capula
Corse-du-Sud, France
Capula is the atmospheric climax of the Cucuruzzu circuit in southern Corsica — a site where Bronze Age Torrean foundations underlie a 9th-century medieval castrum, and...
Casteddu di Tappa
Corse-du-Sud, France
Casteddu di Tappa is one of southern Corsica's most complete Torrean Bronze Age complexes — a cyclopean-walled village crowned by a circular ceremonial torre that...
Ceccia
Corse-du-Sud, France
Casteddu di Ceccia is a Torrean Bronze Age torra monument dating to approximately 1350 BCE, preserved on a rocky outcrop in the village of Ceccia south of Porto-Vecchio....
Cucuruzzu
Corse-du-Sud, France
Cucuruzzu is the finest surviving example of a Torrean casteddu — a Bronze Age fortified hilltop settlement built in Corsica's Alta Rocca plateau between 1800 and 800 BCE....
Filitosa
Sollacaro, Corse-du-Sud, France
On a Corsican hillside overlooking the Taravo valley, twenty menhirs stand as witness to 8,000 years of human presence....
Fontanaccia Dolmen
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
On the wild Cauria plateau in southern Corsica, a massive granite slab rests on six vertical stones, creating a burial chamber that has stood for four millennia....
Monument torréen de Foce
Corse-du-Sud, France
The Monument torréen de Foce is one of Corsica's best-preserved standalone Bronze Age torre structures — a single circular tower of cyclopean dry-stone masonry, standing...
Palaghju (Palaggiu) Alignment
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
Deep in the Corsican maquis near Sartene, 258 megaliths rise in seven groups, making Palaghju the largest alignment of standing stones in the entire Mediterranean....
Rehaghiu (Rinaghju) Menhirs
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
Beneath a grove of trees on Corsica's Cauria plateau, forty-six granite menhirs stand in two parallel rows, creating what feels like a processional path through Bronze Age...
Stantari Menhirs
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
On the wild Cauria plateau of southern Corsica, thirty ancient megaliths stand in alignment, seven of them bearing carved human faces, shoulders, and weapons....
Statue-menhir of Tavera
Corse-du-Sud, France
The Tavera statue-menhir is a 2.42-metre anthropomorphic standing stone carved from fine-grained granite by Bronze Age inhabitants of the Gravone valley — considered one...
U Cantonu
Corse-du-Sud, France
At the entrance to the village of Pila-Canale, near its cemetery, two granite standing stones have kept watch for three and a half millennia....
Key questions
Corse-du-Sud sacred-site questions
- How many sacred sites are listed in Corse-du-Sud?
- This regional guide currently includes 13 sacred sites in Corse-du-Sud, France.
- Which traditions are represented in Corse-du-Sud?
- The most represented traditions in the current guide include Prehistoric, Celtic and Prehistoric.
- Can I view Corse-du-Sud sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Switch to map view to compare the listed places, then open a site page for coordinates and visiting context.