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Plage de Palombaggia
Porto-Vecchio · France
The short version, from the cited sources
Palombaggia is Corsica's most celebrated beach: white sand shelving into transparent shallows, red granite boulders at the waterline and a fringe of umbrella pines behind, with the Cerbicale islands offshore. It curves through a series of linked coves southeast of Porto-Vecchio, busy in high summer but never built up, since the pine belt and hills behind remain largely undeveloped. The granite-and-pine framing distinguishes it from any tropical lookalike.
- Country
- France (FR)
- Region
- Europe
- Sand
- White
- Water
- Shallow, glass-clear tyrrhenian water
- Administrative area
- Corsica
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2016-03-18
Names in the record
Plage de Palombaggia
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Source position
41.55831, 9.32611
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