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Citadel of Calvi

France

Heritage status
classified historical monument
Location
Calvi
Coordinates
42.56838°, 8.76071°
Links
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Citadel of Calvi in France
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Citadel of Calvi was built from the 13th to the 15th century on the island of Corsica with the support of the Genoese, following the requests for help from Calvi. The requests were based on an oppression of the citizenry by noble Calvese and subsequently on a Franco-Turkish threat as background. On behalf of the Republic of Genoa (former maritime republic), the bank there, the Casa delle Compere di San Giorgio, financed the Calvese fortress project from the early 15th century with Genoese gold coins (to the value, it is said, of ca. 60.000 pounds). The citadel is the landmark of the town of Calvi.

Machine-translated from “Zitadelle Calvi” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Citadel of Calvi ranks #7,875 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #776 of the 954 mapped in France. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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