Vast territory (Sartène is the 2nd commune of France by the surface) is delimited by the point of Roccapina in the south, the course of Tizzano in the west and Sartène at the top. Prosper Mérimée said of it “it is the most Corsican of the Corsican cities”. Located for the ones a little far from the sea, it is for different haven of peace. Sartene or Sarté in Corsica is an old strengthened city built on a rocky outcrop dominating Rizzanèse, field of the lords of Rocca to the Middle Ages, it was the theatre many conflicts and due to undergo multiple incursions during its history and in particular barbaresque. These are the successive threats come from the sea which forged this particularism sartenais fold on oneself and from mistrust vis-a-vis an environment considered as hostile.
