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HOTEL DOMINIQUE COLONNA
CORTE

HOTEL DOMINIQUE COLONNA, CORTE
HOTEL DOMINIQUE COLONNA, CORTE
HOTEL DOMINIQUE COLONNA, CORTE
HOTEL DOMINIQUE COLONNA, CORTE

This is an hotel for hikers who like their creature comforts. But, thanks to its memorable location, it probably attracts guests who have never even owned a pair of walking boots.

The Dominque Colonna (he was a famous footballer in the sixties) is situated in valley of the River Restonica, about 3km from Corte, the island’s university campus and ancient capital. The narrow cul-de-sac road leading to the hotel and on up the valley can get choked with cars in peak season when everyone wants to discover this magnificent landscape. The river rises at 1700m and cascades its way through forests and past huge granite boulders. This strikingly beautiful area is fragile (viz the fires of 2000) and it has been classified as a ‘grand site national’.

The hotel's riverside location presents a wonderful natural spectacle, set against tranquil woodland on the opposite bank. Accommodations are clean, comfortable and particularly well maintained. The lack of a restaurant poses no problem because the same family run the auberge, just across the car park, with a good choice of Corsican specialities on the reasonably priced menus.