Albitreccia is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department in the Corsica region of France.

Geography
Albitreccia is a commune in the Canton of Taravo-Ornano in South Corsica. The main village is located in the Taravo valley near the village of Grosseto. The commune has several centres of population: Molini (Alzone) and its extent behind Agosta beach, Bisina, Monti-Rossu and the hamlets of Buselga, Beddi Vaddi, San giorghju a Masina, and the ruined hamlet of U Pianu located upstream of Monti rossu under the Cozzanicciu and Tassiccia mountains over 1,000m high. There is hiking on Mare a Mare Centre which crosses the commune to join the col Saint-Georges and continues in the Taravo heights until it reaches the famous GR 20.

The commune has several access points. From the N193 highway inland the D55 road goes south through the commune joining the D302 on the south-western border. From the D55 the D2 links to the village of Albitreccia. The D2 continues south to meet the D102 at the southern border. The D102 crosses the eastern side of the commune but does not pass through any villages. In the west of the commune the D302 comes south from Fica passing through the hamlet of Bisinao before continuing to Cognocoli-Monticchi. The D255 also links with the D302 from the south. In the east access is via the D55 which follows the length of the coast.

Neighbouring communes and towns

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Albitreccia

Population

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
The commune has a large number of buildings that are registered as historical monuments:

House 15 (15th century)
House 17 (16th century)
House 24 (20th century)
House 25 (1687)
House 26 (1749)
House 29 (1584)
House 30 (17th century)
House 31 (16th century)
House 35 (16th century)
House 36 at Bisinao (1810)
House 37 at Bisinao (19th century)
House 39 at Bisinao (1835)
House 3 (20th century)
House 40 at Bisinao (20th century)
House 41 at Bisinao (20th century)
House 43 at Bisinao (1861)
House 46 at Molini (18th century)
House 7 (17th century)
House 41 (20th century)
House 8 (1906)
House 9 (19th century)
House 14 (19th century)
Town Hall and School (1904)
Houses of Albitreccia (16th to 20th century)

Religious heritage
The commune has two religious buildings that are registered as historical monuments:
The Church of Saint-Pierre (19th century). The church has one item that is registered as an historical monument:
Furniture in the Church of Saint-Pierre

The Parish Church of Saint-Catherine (1854). The church contains many items which are registered as historical objects:
Furniture in the Church of Saint-Catherine
A Ciborium (19th century)
A Monstrance (18th century)
A Statue: Virgin du Rosaire (19th century)
A Statue: Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel (19th century)
A Statue: Saint Catherine of Alexandria (19th century)
A Tabernacle (17th century)
A Processional Statue: Saint Jules (20th century)

Albitreccia Picture Gallery

Notable people linked to the commune
Victor Sinet, sports journalist
Ange-Marie Michelosi

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Albitreccia on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Altagène (; Corsican: Altaghjè pronounced [al.ta.ˈɟe]) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department in the Corsica region of France.

Geography
Altagène is located some 20 km north-east of Propriano and some 25 km north-west of Porto-Vecchio in a direct line. Access to the commune is by road D49 running north from Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano and ending in the village. The D320 also runs north from Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano through the western part of the commune and continues to Zoza as road D20. There are some small mountain roads through the commune which is steeply sloped and heavily forested.

There are no identifiable rivers or streams nor other hamlets in the commune.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Altagène

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 49 inhabitants.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
A House (12) (now the Town Hall) (18th century)
A House (13) (1779)
A House (15) (18th century)
A House (17) (1804)
A House (18) (1817)
A House (20) (18th century)
A House (21) (19th century)
A House (22) (1727)
A House (4) (1855)
Houses (17th - 20th centuries)

Religious heritage

The Parish Church of Saint Pantaléon (19th century) is registered as an historical monument.

The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:

The Furniture in the Church
An Altar Statue (19th century)
A Processional Banner (2) (19th century)
A Processional Banner (1) (19th century)
A Body Purse, Chasuble, Stole, Maniple, and Humeral Veil (19th century)
A Sunburst Monstrance (19th century)
A Ciborium (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (19th century)
A Statue: Christ on the Cross (19th century)
A Statue: Saint Pantaléon (19th century)
A Statue: Virgin and Child (19th century)
A Statue: Saint Blaise (19th century)
A Painting: Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Blaise and Saint Pantaléon (18th century)

Altagène Photo Gallery

See also
 Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Altagène on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Ambiegna is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography

Ambiegna is located some 25 km in a direct line north of Ajaccio and 5 km east of Sagone. It can be accessed by the D25 road from Casaglione in the south or by the D1 road from Solane in the south-west both going to the village on the eastern side of the commune. The D1 road continues north to Le Truggia by a tortuous route. The commune is remote and rugged with dense forests.

The north-western border of the commune entirely consists of a large river flowing to the west.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 68 inhabitants.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
A Rotary Oil Mill (20th century)
The Marchi family House (1) (1733)
The Marchi family House (2) (1861)
The Defranchi family House (1866)
A House (6) (1855)
A House (7) (18th century)
A Fabrica di Pipa Sawmill (1893)
A Flour Mill (18th century)
A former Presbytery (1871)
A former School now the Town Hall (1886)
Houses (18th-19th century)

Religious heritage
The Parish Church of Saint-Côme and Saint-Damien (19th century) is registered as an historical monument. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:

A Painting: Virgin and child with Saints (17th century)
A Ciborium (20th century)
A Statuette for Collections (20th century)
A Sunburst Monstrance (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (19th century)
A Chalice (18th century)
A set of 2 Altar Candlesticks (17th century)
A Pail for Holy water (19th century)
An Altar Painting: Virgin and child surrounded by Saints (17th century)
A Statuette: the Child Jesus (19th century)
A Painting: Saint Antoine of Padua and the child Jesus (18th century)
A Statue: Saint Antoine of Padua and the child Jesus (19th century)
A Baptismal font (18th century)
The Furniture in the Church

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Ambiegna on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Appietto (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography
Appietto is located 17 km from Ajaccio, and stretches from the Gozzi mount to the coastline of the Gulf of Lava. This historic village culminates at 480 meters, while the rest of the town consists of several ancient villages (Volpaja, Lava Listincone, Picchio, Piscia Rossa) and recent subdivisions (Monté Nebbio, Chiosu Vecchiu, Vanghone, Filletta).

The Ruisseau de Lava flows through the commune from east to west.
It enters the sea in the Golfe de Lava, which has been designated a Natura 2000 site.

Sights
 Chapel St Cyr: This chapel is located on the heights of Appietto. It is oriented eastwards. It remains in ruins today.
Ciuttulaghja: An archaeological site in Corsica. It is located in the commune.
Torra di Pelusella: A Genoese tower.

Population

See also
Tour de Pelusella
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Marsainvilliers () is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. The poet Micheline Dupray was born in Marsainvilliers in 1929.

The name of inhabitants are Marsainvilloises

See also
Communes of the Loiret department

References

Communes of Loiret


DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) is a UK NHS training course for people with type 2 diabetes that helps people to identify their own health risks and to set their own goals.

Background
DESMOND is the first national education programme created for people with Type 2 diabetes. DESMOND meets the criteria NICE identified as being the characteristics of a quality, evidence-based structured education programme.

A NHS training course is available for type 1 diabetics called DAFNE (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating).

Course details

Format
Each programme is run in a group setting, consisting of not more than 10 people newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (normally within the last 12 months), accompanied, if they so choose, by a partner, family member, or friend. The programme may be run as a one-day, or two part (2 x half-day) course.

The DESMOND programme is facilitated by two health care professionals who have been formally trained.

Content
Topics covered in the DESMOND curriculum:
The patient story
What diabetes is
Main ways to manage diabetes
Consequences of diabetes and personal risk from having diabetes
Monitoring your diabetes
Ways to take action to improve the control of your diabetes
Food choices for diabetics
Physical activity and diabetes
Stress and emotions and diabetes
The purpose and content of annual diabetic review and screening in diabetics

See also
Type 2 diabetes

References

NHS DESMOND homepage
NHS NICE criteria for diabetes training courses

External links
DESMOND NHS project website
Diabetes UK charity website

Diabetes


Arbellara (; in Corsican Arbiddali, pronounced [ar.bi.ˈɖːaː.li]) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica. It is part of the micro-region of Viggiano in the north of the Rocca region.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arbellarais or Arbellaraises in French.

Geography

Arbellara is located some 6 km east of Propriano and 2 km south of Fozzano. Access to the commune is by road D19 from Viggianello in the west which passes through the village then continues north to Fozzano. The D119 road goes south from the village then turns south-west to join the D69 which goes north-east then north to Loreto-di-Tallano. Apart from the village there is also the hamlet of Acoravo in the south-east of the commune at the intersection of the D119 and D69. The commune is mostly mountainous and forested.

The southern border of the commune is formed by the Rizzanese river which flows west to the Mediterranean Sea south of Propriano.

History
In 1583 the commune was pillaged and the inhabitants massacred by the Turks.
After reprisals by the villagers, it was again pillaged by the  Turks in 1584.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 156 inhabitants.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
The commune has many buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
Houses (16th-19th century)
The Spin'a Cavallu Genoese Bridge (16th century), a hump-backed bridge on the Rizzanèse river.
It has been used as a special stage in the Tour de Corse.

Religious heritage
The Parish Church of Saint Sebastian (18th century) is registered as an historical monument. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:

An Exhibition (19th century)
A Sunburst Monstrance (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (19th century)
Stations of the Cross (19th century)
The Furniture in the Church (19th century)
A Sunburst Monstrance (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (1) (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (2) (19th century)
A Statue: Christ on the Cross (19th century)
A Statue: Salvator Mundi (19th century)
A Statue: Saint Roch (19th century)
A Statue: Saint Sebastian (19th century)
A Statue: Virgin and child (19th century)
A Statue: Saint Gavin (19th century)

Environmental heritage
The Marteau et l'Enclume (Hammer and Anvil), rocks dominating the heights of the commune.

Culinary Specialities
Present day: sheep cheese, lamb milk.
In the past: olive oil (oil press), vineyards (wine presses in homes).
Blessing of the houses on Holy Saturday: the priest is offered eggs, ham, and sheep cheeses.

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links
Arbellara on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Arbori (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arborais or Arboraises

Geography
Arbori is located in a direct line some 12 km south of Marignana and 20 km north of Sarrola-Carcopino. Access to the commune is by the road D1 which runs by a tortuous route north from Sari-d'Orcino through the commune to the village then continues north to Vico. Apart from the village there are also the hamlets of Mercolaccia and Parapoghiu. The commune is remote, mountainous, and heavily forested although with a small patch of farmland in the centre.

The eastern and southern border is formed by the river Liamone, which flows south and then west, from its confluence with the Cruzini.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 54 inhabitants.

Sites and Monuments
The "Pont de Truja" (Truja Bridge) between Arbori and Lopigna (1809)  is registered as an historical monument.
The "Parish Church of the Assumption" contains a Statue: Virgin and child (19th century)  which is registered as an historical object.
The "Castaldu" was an old fortified chateau that was razed in 1489 by the Genoese.

Notable people linked to the commune
, poet.
Pierre Toussaint Leca (Petru Leca) (1879-1951 at Nice). Poet in the French and Corsican languages, founded L’Aloès, a Mediterranean Journal.

 (1445-1515), the last Count of Corsica.

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Arbori on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Argiusta-Moriccio (; ) is a commune in the French department of Corse-du-Sud, collectivity and island of Corsica.

Geography
Argiusta-Moriccio is located 6 km north-east of Petreto-Bicchisano and 8 km south-east of Grosseto-Prugna. Access to the commune is by the D757 road from Bicchisano in the south-west passing through the commune and the village and continuing north-east to Olivese.  Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Moriccio north-west of the village. The commune is heavily forested and mountainous throughout.

The north-western border of the commune is a river flowing to the west.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 76 inhabitants.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
A House at Argiusta (1581)
A House at Moriccio (1777)
A House of a Notable at Argiusta (18th century)
A House of a Notable at Argiusta (1875)
Houses (16th, 18th, & 19th centuries)
The War memorial at Argiusta (1956)

Other sites of interest
Torréen de Foce monument

Religious heritage

The Parish Church of Saint Hippolyte and Saint Cassien (1746) is registered as an historical monument. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
The complete Secondary Altar of the Virgin (18th century)
The complete Secondary Altar of the Brotherhood of the Rosary (18th century)
A Group Sculpture: Saint Vincent de Paul and two children (19th century)
An Altar Painting: Presenting a Scapular to the saints by the Virgin and child (1870)
A Painting: Meditation of Saint Madeleine (19th century)
An Altar Painting: Donation of the Rosary (18th century)
A Chasuble, Chalice cover, and Stole (19th century)
A Chasuble and 2 Dalmatics (19th century)
A Chasuble, Chalice cover, and Humeral cover (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (2) (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (1) (19th century)
The Furniture in the Church

Historical objects in the Church

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Argiusta-Moriccio on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Aullène (; ; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Auddaninchi.

Geography

Aullène is located some 35 km in a direct line (68 km by road) south-east of Ajaccio, 20 km in a direct line (36 km by road) north-east of Propriano, and 10 km in a direct line (21 km by road) east by south-east of Petreto-Bicchisano. Aullène is a mountain village with a pastoral tradition whose territory is in the upper part of a valley parallel to and south of the Taravo valley. Access to the commune is by road D420 from Serra-di-Scopamène in the south-east to the village in the south of the commune then continuing west by a tortuous route to Petreto-Bicchisano. The D69 road comes from Cargiaca in the south by a tortuous road to the village then continues north from the village through the length of the commune, then goes west across the Col de la Vaccia before continuing north to Zicavo.

The village is at an altitude of 850 metres on the left bank of the Chiuvone (in Corsican Chjuvonu). It extends around two "pogs" (or poghji in Corsican) and is dominated by the Punta Ariola, a summit of 1,449 metres.
The Chjuvonu river, called Le Fleuve (The River) by locals, rises on the Cuscionu plateau, which marks the north by north-eastern border of the commune, and passes near the village before continuing its course towards south by south-west towards the Rocca region and joins the Rizzanese below Zoza.

Ridge lines, including the main summit of Punta di Sistaja (1,724 metres), are the natural boundaries of the village to the east, north and west while the Col de la Tana delimits the territory in the south by south-west.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy
The name of the commune is Aullène in French and Audde in Corsican - the accent after the "e" corresponds to a tone mark on the final "e" and not the French "é", it sounds almost like au|g|ddè.

In Corsican it sounds different depending on whether it is in the diquai (di qua dai monti) or in the dilai (di là dai monti). A simple test is to ask how to say grandmother and grandfather: if it is mammone and babbone that is in diquai; if it is minnana and missiavu then that is dilai. In addition, each micro-region has its idiosyncrasies and phonological features. Thus in the Alta Rocca region, which is a dilai area, the "ll" is strongly dentalised which turns it into a small palatal "d", hence the modern spelling Audde''' instead of Aullé as written in the Terrier of Corsica in 1769.

There has been a myriad of suppositions made by scholars on the etymology of the name "Aullène".

Among the certainties, it is known that the people of Alta Rocca say Audde and that the French geographers of the late 18th century used the name Aullène. Aullene is found written on Italian acts in the 17th century. In the 16th century Auguliena appears in the detail of inhabited places in the Pieve of Talla.

In the village some have argued that the origin of the name comes from Ancient Greek meaning "crossroads" (in Greek  = "place where two roads meet"; triodos = "place where three roads meet"). The crossroads, however, are rather recent in Aullène as the road to Ajaccio was not opened until the end of the 19th century and completed in 1927.

Geographers in the late 18th century supported the Latin term meaning alder to give a French name to the village because they believed that the word had a rapport with the fragrance of alder in some mountain valleys (Alnus alnobetula subsp. suaveolens or u bassu in Corsican).

The term Auguliena was used in texts in the mid-16th century (see the research by Antoine-Dominique Monti in Elements for a dictionary of proper names) meaning a "scan point" or "observation post". This solution is plausible as it was probably a fortified place in the 11th century and certainly in the 13th century when the Giudice (Sinucello Della Rocca was called the "Giudice of Cinarca") monitored and controlled the neighbouring lords.

History
The village of Aullène lies in the heart of the Alta Rocca micro-region and is strongly influenced by an old pastoral tradition. Until just before the First World War, which cut off Corsican families from their traditional lives, the residents of Aullène moved with their cattle from the mountain pastures to the coast for the winter months during the rainy season or the impiaghiera then went back to their summer pastures in the mountains or a muntanera before the onset of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Between Monacia-d'Aullène, the summer village, and Aullène is Ghjanuciu - now a hamlet which was well populated until recent times. Ghjanuciu was a stop at the foot of the Montagen de Cagna on the Transhumance way for the shepherds. It is therefore not surprising to find the same families in the three villages. It was not only individual property that was shared between two villages - part of the land owned by the commune of Aullène on the Cuscionu was in joint ownership with Monacia-d'Aullène and some coastal lands in Monacia-d'Aullène was also ij joint ownership with Aullène. Livestock breeding was so important in the commune that the parish feast on the first Sunday of August continued to be the largest cattle fair in the region until the Second World War.

In 2010 there were 464 permanent residents in Monacia-d'Aullène, from which the hamlet of Aullène separated to be an independent commune in 1870, and 182 in Aullène. These figures can increase fivefold or more when the so-called "Corsican diaspora" come to spend the summer at the village.

In July 2009 a fire destroyed some 3,500 hectares of forest from the hamlet of Burgu (Propriano) to the Col de Vaccia (Aullène). According to police investigations the fire was caused by work done on an electrical line at Burgu.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 187 inhabitants.

Distribution of Age Groups
Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Aullène and Corse-du-Sud Department in 2017

Source: INSEEÉvolution et structure de la population en 2017: Département de la Corse-du-Sud (2A)

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
The commune has a large number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

House 103 (17th century)
House 10 (17th century)
House 11 (1694)
House 12 (19th century)
House 16 (1883)
House 18 (1872)
House 20 (1878)
House 22 (1872)
House 24 (1839)
House 25 (19th century)
House 26 (1697)
House 28 (19th century)
House 30 (1835)
House 32 (1843)
House 33 (19th century)
House 34 (19th century)
House 37 (1846)
House 3 (1922)
House 51 (18th century)
House 53 (19th century)
House 58 (1901)
House 66 (19th century)
House 71 (1885)
House 74 (19th century)
House 75 (19th century)
House 8 (19th century)
House 91 (19th century)
House 96 (19th century)
House 99 (19th century)
House 9 (1842)
War Memorial (20th century)
Houses (17th-20th centuries)
Chiuvonu Bridge (19th century)
La Liberté Fountain (1881).

The fountain has a Statue of Marianne (1863) that is registered as an historical object.

Other sites of interest
A Fortified place from the 11th century north-east of the centre of the village at a place called "Vastellare" is a small summit on which was built a fortress - probably in the eleventh century. This position is located above the current D69 road, which was a former pathway descending from Zicavo which was widely used by people in Transhumance. At a place called Castellare (or Casteddaru in Corsican) the site of the castle can be reached by the remains of a very old stone staircase.
A Fortified place from the 13th century, lower than "Castellare" on a hillock planted with chestnut trees around which part of the village extends (Campanaju on the Geoportal map). This was the stronghold built by Giudice di Cinarca (or his real name Sinucello Della Rocca) who unified the island in its entirety in a short time. The position on the Campanaghju allowed Sinucello Della Rocca, who was in perpetual conflict with the lords of Levie and Carbini, to monitor movements on the Zicavo to Levie road and he was able to withdraw to an easily defensible position.

Religious heritage

The commune has two religious buildings that are registered as historical monuments:
The Chapel of Saint-Antioche (1820). The Catholic community in the village every first Sunday in August leads the representation of the Saint in procession from the church to celebrate the Transfiguration in contribution to the village festival. The "Fiera di Sant'Antiochu" (Saint Antioch Fair) in Aullène was one of the largest cattle fairs in Corsica until the Second World War. The Chapel contains two items that are registered as historical monuments:
Altar, Tabernacle, Stoup, Altar Pulpit, 4 Candlesticks, 2 Statues, and a book
A Painting: Intercession of the Virgin and Child for the souls in Purgatory (19th century)
The Parish Church of Saint-Nicolas (19th century).Ministry of Culture, Mérimée   The Parish Church has many items which are registered as historical objects:
A Pulpit
The Furniture in the Church
The Furniture in the Sacristy (19th century)
12 Stalls (19th century)
A Celebrant Chair (19th century)
A Tabernacle in the main Altar (19th century)
Baptismal fonts (19th century)
A Cope decorated in gold (19th century)
A Chasuble, Stole, and Maniple decorated in gold (19th century)
A Corporal Burse, Chasuble, and Maniple decorated in gold (19th century)
A Chasuble, Maniple, and Chalice cover decorated in gold (19th century)
A Chalice (No. 3) (19th century)
A Chalice (No. 2) (19th century)
A Chalice (No. 1) (19th century)
A Pulpit (18th century)
The Protestant Church was built in 1905 and remained active until the Second World War.

Notable people linked to the commune
Sinucello Della Rocca, called "Il Ghjudiciu di Cinarca" (1221-1306 or 1312) - In 1264 he accepted a form of constitution and succeeded in uniting the island around the end of the 13th century; his seat was at a fortified place on the heights of Aullène.
Jean-Baptiste Natali (1883-1974) - Born in Aullène; writer; teacher, prosecutor of the Republic; author of Nos Géorgiques (Our Georgics) (1921),  (Among the Thyme and the dew) (1934), a study on the Alta Rocca dialect, and  (The Dialectical poetry of the Corsican people) (1961).
Pierre-Dominique Lucchini, known by the pen-name Pierre Dominique (1889-1973) - journalist and politician; author of Chroniques corses (1926).
Simon Dary or Simonu d'Auddè (1900-1978) - Born at Monacia-d'Aullène; poet, prose writer, and writer of fables (text, poetry, and plays); author of  (1965) and Risa Corsa (1977).
Pierre Rossi (1920-2002) - Born at Aullène; writer and philosopher; teacher and diplomat; author of  (Revolts in Iraq) (1962),  (Libya),  (The Tunisia of Bourguiba), "" (From Suez to Aqaba),  (Arab oil in war),  (The keys of war),  (The green Libya of Qaddafi),  (The City of Isis, a true history of Arabs) (1976),  (Iraq, the country with long news),  (An evening at Pisa),  (The plotters of Aléria), U disturbu 1789-1989, la mise à sac (1989), '' (Corsica, Europe, and the right) (1991).
Lucie Dolène (1931) - originally from Aullène; singer and comedian
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister (1969-1972)
Jean-Claude Gaudin, Senator-Mayor of Marseille

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Aullène website
Aullène on wiki.Geneanet
Aullène on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Azilone-Ampaza (; , ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography
Azilone-Ampaza is located in the Panicale Valley in the Middle Taravo region some 22 km east by south-east of Ajaccio and 4 km east of Grosseto-Prugna. The D83 road from Santa-Maria-Siché to Zévaco passes through the northern tip of the commune but has no connection to the village. Access to the village is by road D26 from Olivese in the south-east which enters the commune from the south, passing through the village, then loops south again to join the Route nationale N196 south-west of the commune. Apart from the main village there are the hamlets of Ampaza in the north-west and Azilone south of the village. The commune is rugged and heavily forested.

Neighbouring communes and villages

History
Both villages originated from the hamlet of Calcinaghju which was in the middle of the valley and destroyed by the Moors. Under the Paolinu and Genovese administrative systems, the commune belonged to the Pieve of Ornano. The town is now mainly known for being a high point on the Tour de Corse, an event that counts for the World Rally Championship (WRC).

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Population

Culture and heritage

Religious heritage

The Chapel of Saint-Saveur d'Ampaza contains a Tabernacle (16th century) which is registered as an historical object.
The Parish Church of Sainte-Marie contains a Monstrance (19th century) which is registered as an historical object.

Azilone-Ampaza Photo Gallery

Notable people linked to the commune

Monseigneur Paul Mathieu de la Foata (1817-1899), Bishop of Ajaccio and author of Poesie giocose
Arthur Giovoni (1909-1996), resistance fighter from the beginning of the war, communist MP, Companion of the Liberation
Eliane Eva Vincileoni (1930-1989), militant libertarian, niece of Arthur Giovoni, coordinator of the anti-Franco struggle in Catalonia, founder of the group Materialismo e Libertad in Milan, Italy.

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Ampaza website
Azilone-Ampaza on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Azzana is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department on the island of Corsica, France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Azzanais or Azzanaises.

Geography
Azzana is located some 13 km north-east of Casaglione and 10 km north-west of Bocognano. Access to the commune is by road D4 from Salice in the west which passes through the centre of the commune and the village before continuing east to Rezza. The D125 goes south-west from the village to Lopigna. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Vignamajo towards the south. The commune is remote and rugged with snow-capped mountains in the north and south and very extensive forests.

The river Liamone passes through the centre of the commune south of the village as it flows west to join the sea at Liamone.
The Cruzzini, a tributary of the Liamone, also flows through the commune.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Population

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
The commune has a very large number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments.

Religious heritage
The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
The Funeral Chapel of the Marcangeli family (1935)
The old Chapel Sainte-Lucie (18th century). The chapel contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
A Sunburst Monstrance (20th century)
A Statue: Saint Lucie (19th century)
A set of 2 Choir Candlesticks (19th century)
A Crown Light fixture (2) (19th century)
A set of 2 Crown Light fixtures (1) (19th century)
A Sanctuary Lamp (19th century)
A Chasuble and Stole (20th century)
A set of 2 Bells (1929)
A set of 2 Altar Vases (19th century)
An Altar Vase (1) (19th century)
A set of 2 Cruets (19th century)
A Chalice with Paten (19th century)
A Baptismal font (18th century)
A Ciborium (2) (18th century)
A Ciborium (1) (1883)
The Furniture in the Church (1883)
The Church of Notre-Dame of Mount Carmel (18th century)
The Cemetery at Vallemajo (19th century). The Cemetery contains two items that are registered as historical objects:
A Tombstone of Julie Ottaviani (1900)
A Funerary Cross (1886)
The Tomb of Marie-Antoinette Vellutini (1923)
The Cemetery for the Antonietti and Vellutini families (19th century). The cemetery contains two items that are registered as historical objects:
A Funerary Cross of Marie-Dominique Antonietti (1895)
A Funerary Cross of Paul Marie Antonietti (1902)
The Funeral Chapel at Croce (19th century)
The former Parish Church of Saint-Nicolas de Bari (18th century). The church contains one item that is registered as an historical object:
A Baptismal font (18th century)

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

Azzana on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Bastelica is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

It was the birthplace of Sampiero Corso.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bastelicais, Bastelicaises, or Bastilcacci.

Geography
Bastelica is located in the interior of the island in the high valley of the Prunelli south-west of the Monte Renoso massif of which it shares the summit at  of Monte Renoso with Bocognano and Ghisoni. It is also part of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica. It is some 18 km east of Ajaccio (in a straight line). It has many pastures planted with chestnut trees.

Access to the commune is by the D27 from Cauro in the south-west which passes through the length of the commune and the village before continuing north to Bocognano. The D27A goes east from the village to the mountain heights but has no exit. The D3 branches from the D27 south of the village and goes south-west to join the Route nationale N196 near Ajaccio. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Vignola and Radicale to the south. The commune is rugged and mountainous.

Bastelica has no less than 16 adjacent communes and is one of the six communes in the Community of communes of the Valley of the Prunelli. It was once the chief town of the Canton but is now a part of the Canton of Gravona-Prunelli which has its seat in Afa.

The intersection of the 42nd parallel North and the 9th meridian East of Greenwich is in the commune (see the Degree Confluence Project).

Climate
Bastelica has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csb). The average annual temperature in Bastelica is . The average annual rainfall is  with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Bastelica was  on 23 July 2009; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 11 February 1986.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 533 inhabitants.

Education
The commune has a public primary school.

Sports
The Val d'Ese ski resort is located in the commune.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
 The War Memorial at Dominicacci
 Many Fountains and Lavoirs
 Boccialacce Fountain;
 Fountain-Lavoir of Piscia D'Urtolu at Stazzona;
 Fountain of Dominicacci;
 Fountain of Verga;
 Funtana Maio Fountain at Vassalacci;
 a Fountain-Lavoir called Fountain de Costa or Fountain de Tricolacci.

The commune has two sites that are registered as historical monuments:
 A Monument to Sampiero Corso (1890) The work of the sculptor Vital Gabriel Dubray, this bronze statue is 3.50m high and stands at a crossroads in the village centre between the parish church, the school (formerly the Saint Francis Convent), and the town hall.
 The Genovese Bridge at Zippitoli (15th century) In the 16th century the bridge provided a connection from Bastelica to Ajaccio. With a single arch, it is a humpbacked bridge like most of that time. It was abandoned during the construction of the "forest road No. 1 from Cauro to Bastelica" which is today the D27 road.

Religious heritage

 Chapel of the Annunciation (the Anunciata) at Dominicacci opposite the War Memorial.
 Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel called a Ghjisgiola at Vassalacci.
 Chapel Sainte-Bernadette at Radicale.
 Chapel Sant'Austinu di Basterga at Sant'Agostino.
 The Parish Church of Saint Michel  is in the Santo (Santu) district at the centre of the village. In Baroque style and built in the 17th century, it is built in the form of a Latin cross. The central nave is lined with square pillars and flanked by two aisles (or lateral naves) and is extended by a choir where there is the main Altar. There are two side chapels with side altars dedicated to Saint Michel and Saint Anthony of Padua. The bell tower porch is four storeys high with a symmetrical façade on the first two floors, topped by a triangular pediment, and crowned with a cupola. The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
 A Stations of the Cross (14 stations) (1905)
 A Statue: Virgin and child (19th century)
 A Painting: The Calvary (17th century)
 A Stoup (17th century)
 An Altar and Tabernacle (17th century)
 A Statue: Saint Anthony of Padua (17th century)

Environmental heritage
Bastelica is part of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica in the "Land of Life" called Gravona.

 Zone of Ecological Interest, Flora and Fauna (ZNIEFF)
The commune has eight 2nd generation ZNIEFF areas:

 The Pineta-Quarceta Forest and the Punta di Forca d'Olmu mountains, an area between 522 and 1679 metres above sea level covering 3007 hectares.
 The Forest of five communes and Col d'Arusula, an area of 2529 hectares of forest area lying north of the Col d'Arusula (1206m) covering over Frasseto and Guitera-les-Bains with an altitude between 789 and 1569m. The vegetation consists of green oak forests of Mediterranean type with beech and pine forests in the mountains.
 The Beech forests of Bastelica, an area of 946 hectares of forest ranging between 900 and 1750m altitude.
 The Chestnut-Beech Forests of Bastelica, an area wholly in Bastelica covering 1492 hectares of forest ranging between 700 and 1210m altitude.
 The Cirques and glacial lakes of Monte Renoso, an area of 1762 hectares covering three communes. It is centred on Monte Renoso and lies between 1600 and 2352m altitude.
 The Peaks and upper unforested slopes of Monte Renoso, an area covering eight communes lying between 950 and 2352 metres above sea level and covering 5111 hectares. It is an area traditionally used by shepherds for summer pastures and there are many sheep there in summer. The Ghisoni ski resort is on the eastern slope of Renoso and the Ese ski resort is above Bastelica.
 The Pine Forests in the upper ravine of Marmano, an area of 217 hectares located west of the Col de Verde and including the upper Marmano valley.
 The Beech-Pine forests of Punteniello, an area of 523 hectares of forest stretching between 1200 and 1800 m altitude.

 Natura 2000 sites
 Sites of Community Importance (Dir. Habitat)
 The Massif de Renoso, an area of 6107 hectares.
 Special Protection Area (Dir. Birds)
 The Territorial Forests of Corsica, an area covering 13,223 hectares between 200 and 2057 metres altitude. There are three species of protected birds: the Northern goshawk ((Corsica ssp.) Accipiter gentilis arrigonii (Kleinschmidt, 1903)), the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus, 1758)), and the Corsican nuthatch (Sitta whiteheadi Sharpe, 1884) in the high pine forests.

Notable people linked to the commune
 Sampiero Corso, born in the commune on 23 mai 1498, failed to take the island from the Genovese. Died in an ambush on 5 January 1567 near the village of Eccica in a place that took the name of "Senza Populi" or "Tamanti Populi". His first name could come from Santu pieru (Saint Peter's day).
 Alphonse d'Ornano, son of Sampiero Corso, born in Bastelica in 1548, Marshal of France during the French Wars of Religion, he died at Bordeaux in 1610.

See also
 Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Bastelicaccia (; Corsican: A Bastirgaccia) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bastilcacci or Bastelicacciais and Bastelicacciaises.

Geography
Bastelicaccia is  to the east of the centre of Ajaccio and immediately to the east of Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport. It was created in 1865 between the rivers Gravona and Prunelli. The highest point in the commune is Monte Aragnasco. Access to the commune is by Route nationale N196 which passes through the south of the commune from the airport in the west to Cauro in the east. The D3 branches off the N196 at the south-western edge of the commune and goes north-east through the commune to Ocana. Access to the village is by the D303 which branches from the D3 in the commune and goes north to the village then continues north to join the D1 west of Cuttoli-Corticchiato. Apart from the main village there are the villages of Colombina, Macina, Bottacina, Cagile, Casaccia, Mascarone, Cuara, Funtanacciu, Mascardaccia, Suaralta, Forcala, and Pisciatello. The commune is hilly with many villages, farms, and some forests.

One of the traditional cheeses of Corsica is called bastelicacciu after the commune. It is produced in the lower valleys of the Gravona and Prunelli.

History
On the 18th century land survey Bastelicaccia was better known as Bastélica-Communes. It became populated from the beginning of the 19th century.

With a land area of 1820 hectares, the population of about 800 in Bastelica village considered that it was easier to settle in the plains for most farmers as the lowland climate was better in winter. So, in summer, there would be an annual migration back to Bastelica village. As a result, the Chief Surveyor advised the creation of the commune of Bastelicaccia.

Bastelicaccia is part of the Canton of Ajaccio-5. The Canton also includes Alata, Villanova and part of Ajaccio.

Bastelicaccia has evolved at a rapid pace due to the proximity of the regional capital and its urban sprawl.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 3,983 inhabitants.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage
The commune has a very large number of houses that are registered as historical monuments. As well as the houses the commune also has a number of other sites that are registered as historical monuments:
 A Bread Oven at Cagili (18th century)
 The Prunelli Inn at Pisciatella (19th century)
 The old Primary School at Fontanaccio (1882)
 The old Primary School at Pedocchio (1882)

Religious heritage
The Church of Saint Michel (19th century) is registered as an historical monument. The Church contains a Statue: Christ on the Cross (18th century) which is registered as an historical object.

See also
 Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Belvédère-Campomoro (; , ;  or ) is a commune in the French department of Corse-du-Sud on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Torra di Campomoru
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Bilia () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France, on the island of Corsica, within its Corsican single territorial collectivity. It is part of the microregion of Bisogène, the south-western part of the Corsican region of Rocca.

Politics and administration
Jean François Quilichini was mayor of Bilia from 1989 to March 2008, whereupon he was replaced by Michel Tramoni. Both mayors are affiliated to the French Communist Party.

Population

In 2017, Bilia was home to 46 inhabitants.

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Bocognano (; , ) is a commune located in the department of Corse-du-Sud, on the island of Corsica, France. The village, situated at the south-western side of the climb to the Col de Vizzavona, belongs to the micro of Celavo which is historically the capital.

Geography

Situation

Halfway between Ajaccio and Corte, the village of Bocognano is renowned for its privileged position at the foot of Monte d'Oro, its chestnut woods and waterfall Le Voile de la Mariée.
Bocognano, along with 9 other communes, belongs to the canton of Celavo-Mezzana. It is in to the Regional Natural Park of Corsica, in the Gravona territory. Its natural heritage, the purity of its water sources, the quality of its welcome and climate make it a popular summer destination near Ajaccio.

Geology and terrain

Bocognano is a mountain village located in the granite part of the island. It occupies an area surrounded by chains of high mountains of the Monte d'Oro massif in the north, and the Monte Renoso massif to the south, through which flows the Gravona river. It is the upper valley of the Gravona, the river taking its source on the slopes of Monte Renoso at  altitude.

Hydrography

The hydrographic network is dense. The river Gravona is fed by many streams which are only appointed on maps.
Many springs rise in its territory and form natural fountains.

Climate and vegetation

The territory has a tiered vegetation. Below the rocky peaks, clouds, appear odorant alders (bassu in Corsican), and beech woodlands can be found at the top of the valley. Lower altitudes are covered by forests, mainly composed of oaks and pines, and the chestnut wood located in an area between 600 and 800 meters. Chestnut trees planted along the road north of the village attracts many collectors and gatherers at the time of hatching bugs.

Three communal forests cover a large part of the city:
 Bocognano / Pastricciola / Tavera (1451 ha);
 Bastelica / Bocognano (3957 ha);
 Azzana / Bocognano / Pastricciola / Rezza / Tavera (1045 ha).

Channels of communication and transport

Bocognano is distant 38 km from the Ajaccio-Napoléon Bonaparte airport, and 42 km from the commercial port of Ajaccio.

Road access

Bocognano is accessible by car ( RN 193 ) from Ajaccio (36 km), and Corte (41 km). To come from Corte, one must cross the pass of Vizzavona (altitude 1163 m). In winter, it is prudent to bring chains.
The D27 is a road which connects the RN 193 from Bocognano to the RN 196 in Cauro. This small road provides access to the nearby village of Bastelica after a winding 22 km route crossing the neck of the Scalella (1193 m). It is sometimes closed in winter.

Transport

Road haulage

A service of passenger transport by bus (bus Corsica), provided by the carrier EUROCORSE Travel makes every day except Sundays and holidays, links Corte-Ajaccio-Bastia and vice versa.

Rail Transport

Bocognano is served by the line of Railways of Corsica. It has a railway station.

Urbanization
Bocognano is a large village, situated at an average altitude of 650 meters. It is composed of eleven hamlets: Celli, Busso, Poggiola, Moraschi and Corsacci being the most important, Pietrajolo, Quercioli, Gare, Colleta, Villanova and Erbajo.
Inhabitants were once nomadic herders who practiced transhumance; they spent the summer pastures in the mountains (a muntagnera) and winter on the coast (the impiaghjera), especially in the plains' of Afa .
Houses with two or three floors and red roofs present austere facades. Some small businesses are open in Corsacci (bar, bakery, butcher, restaurant, etc.).
In Corsacci, Bocognano has a post office, the Office of Tourism of Upper Gravona open during the summer, an elementary school, a center for 1st intervention Fire Brigade and a brigade of the National Gendarmerie.
Once existed above the hamlet of Busso, the castle of Count Busso. A legend says that one can see some evenings, at night, flames near the castle. They come from damned souls of the Count who can not find rest.
There are many sheepfolds in altitude, although many are no longer occupied for summer pastures.

Policy and Administration

List of mayors

Population and Society

Population

Cultural events and festivities

Festimonti
Festimonti is the annual festival of the mountain. It is organized since 2001 by the association U Liamu Gravunincu in collaboration with the municipality of Bocognano. Its mission is to promote and enhance the micro Valley Gravona.
The event takes place on the last weekend of September or in October.

Fiera di a Castagna
The chestnut fair (Fiera di a Casagna in Corsican) is probably the most famous agricultural fair in Corsica. Since 1982, Fiera di a Castagna takes place the first weekend of December. Organized by the Foyer Rural U Castagnu, this fair is the main event of the end of the year: it attracts thousands of visitors from all corners of the island and more than 150 exhibitors.
In a structure of 3000 m 2 the best food and handicrafts of the island are represented. If the chestnut, particularly in flour, is the key element of the event, there are also certified products such as honey, brocciu, hazelnut, wine, olive oil, but no charcuterie (the island's speciality). Sweets and chocolates, pastries, beer and cheeses are also honored.
The craftsmanship is also very well represented through pottery, cutlery, and woodworking. Booths expose the Corsican literature in all areas, let others find the old songs and melodies on CD.
The entertainment is provided by local radio France Bleu Frequenza Corsica Mora .

Sports

Football
The Sporting Club Bocognano Gravona (SCBG) is the village's football club. It was created in 1986 on the initiative of the village youth. The club now plays in Division of honor and has 180 licensees. In addition to its first team the club has six categories of youth, from beginners to U19. The club operates at the municipal stadium located south of the village. The stadium was renovated in 2009 and features a synthetic lawn.
President since its creation: Michel Galea - François Mancini - Francis Padovani - François Casasoprana - Franck Risterucci (since 2001).
The club has a website .

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links

 A Fiera di a Castagna website
 The Sporting Club Bocognano Gravona website

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Calcatoggio is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Tour d'Ancone
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Carbini (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Carbuccia is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department
Tour de Corse.

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Cardo-Torgia is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Zachary Selig (24 November 1949 – 30 June 2016) was an American artist, author, interior designer and celebrity spiritist.

Life
Selig was the son of New York born American steel manufacturing industrialist and economic advisor Marvin Selig and Eleanor Berg Selig, a Texas commissioner of mental health under 3 United States presidents. He was born in Seguin, Texas, and later lived with his mother's family in the Hudson River Valley and in Manhattan. Selig's mother's cousin and wife became Selig's surrogate parents, who guided him into an international world of art and accomplished artists that built the foundation of his career. Another maternal family relation, New York publicist Lee Goode Kingsley, established Selig's relations in the art world. Charles Revson, his mother's cousin and co-founder of Revlon, invited 17-year-old Selig on board the Revlon yacht Ultima II in Acapulco and introduced him to many guests that later became his lifetime friends, including Merle Oberon, Babe Paley, Gloria Guinness, Dolores del Río, Ahmet Ertegun and his wife Mica, Chito and Jeanette Jaffe de Longoria, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, jewelry designer Aldo Cipullo, Vogue magazine editor DD Ryan, and publicist Eleanor Lambert.

Selig died of heart failure in 2016 after dinner and enjoying the company of dear friends in Mexico City. He had been residing in San Miguel de Allende in his adopted home of Mexico.

Education
Selig was tutored in drawing and oil painting from the age of 5 in Texas, and spoke fluent Spanish by age 12. He began his esoteric anthropological studies in Mesoamerican Anthropology at the age of 16 at the University of the Americas in Mexico City, Mexico with German professor Baron Alexander von Wuthenau, who wrote 5 books on the racial origins of man in Mesoamerica.

His formal education in the arts began with painting at the Colorado Academy in Denver, Colorado. He then studied at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky and at the University of Houston, the Parsons School of Design, the Art Students League of New York, the New York School of Interior Design and oil painting at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Selig was an apprentice of Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg, who also uses Tantras and Mesoamerican cultural references in his works of art. In 1970, Friedeberg introduced Selig to his mentor, artist Bridget Bate Tichenor, in Mexico City. Tichenor, a painter in the magic realism school, spiritually adopted Selig and he was Tichenor's protégé until her death in 1990.

Career
His first publication as author and illustrator was the bestselling Kundalini Awakening – A Gentle Guide to Chakra Activation and Spiritual Growth.

Selig was a magic realist painter. His skills as a spiritist and painter led to the creation of a unique codex titled Relaxatia, an ancient Solar Kundalini paradigm that he rediscovered through Purépecha Nahaulli high priests in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico. It is a codex of the human chakra system and the solar light spectrum, designed to activate Kundalini in color-coded paintings.
Selig made commissioned portraits and works of art for Isabel Goldsmith-Patiño, eldest daughter of Sir James Goldsmith and granddaughter of Antenor Patiño, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, Catherine Oxenberg and Kelly Le Brock, among others. Exhibitions featuring Selig's paintings include "100th Anniversary of Hollywood - Portraits of the Stars" held at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and "Organic Landscapes" sponsored by Versace in Beverly Hills.

An E! True Hollywood Story featured Selig and his close friendship with actress and fashion model Margaux Hemingway. He helped launch Hemingway's career in the 1970s, and established the initial marketing and public relations format that helped make her a global celebrity, introducing Hemingway to a circle of fashion professionals in New York City that included photographer Francesco Scavullo, designer Halston, Vogue editor Francis Stein and Marian McEvoy, a fashion editor for Women's Wear Daily. Selig and Hemingway privately studied Solar Kundalini, yoga and meditation together at the Hemingway family's property in Ketchum, Idaho, adjacent to Sun Valley. Several years later, Hemingway made Selig the creative director for her 1990 Playboy magazine cover and pictorial by photographer Arny Freytag that was shot in Belize.

Selig was a Yoruba priest and spiritual consultant. He was the consultant of  paranormal phenomena for director Tobe Hooper and the production of  Spontaneous Combustion (1990), a film about  psychokinetic powers. It received a nomination for best film in the 1991 Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Awards. Selig performed an Afro-Cuban spiritual cleansing ritual in the 2013 documentary A Journey to Planet Sanity, a film about psychics and the paranormal.

His background as an artist, spiritist and his trompe-l'œil painting were used in his work as interior designer.  He trained with the New York City interior design team of Bunny Mellon and Cartier designer Aldo Cipullo, where he mastered trompe-l'œil painting techniques. His  first commissioned trompe-l'œil interiors were showcased in a 1971 House Beautiful article featuring Cipullo's residence in Manhattan. In 1977, Selig worked in fashion design and created the MU clothing collection in Mexico City, which was produced by artisans in Zihuatanejo. In California, he restored and decorated a suite of interiors in the Villa d'Este, a historic Italianate courtyard villa that was built circa 1928 for Cecil B. DeMille in West Hollywood. The early 20th-century Italian Renaissance style building, with its elaborately painted portico, ceiling decorations and frieze, was a former residence of silent film star Pola Negri. Selig specialized in Sekhem, utilizing an 8,000-year-old pre-dynastic Egyptian Neteru design theurgy with classical and modern design elements in the art of interior design harmonics.

Selig contributed to Maureen Orth's book Vulgar Favors about the death of Gianni Versace. Selig had a home in Miami Beach, Florida, from 1996 to 2004, and was associated with Versace's circle of friends, spending the Sunday before Versace's death with him and a group on the 11th Street Beach in South Beach.

In 2011, Selig contributed the first detailed biographical data of Bridget Bate Tichenor's mother Vera Bate Lombardi and her relationship to Coco Chanel for the book Sleeping With The Enemy – Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan. Artist Pedro Friedeberg dedicated a chapter on Zachary Selig in his book of memoirs De Vacaciones Por La Vida (Holiday For Life) with eight friends that included Salvador Dalí, Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna, Tamara de Lempicka, Mathias Goeritz, Edward James, and Bridget Bate Tichenor.

His artwork was represented by Friedeberg Fine Arts in the USA, France, United Kingdom and Mexico. Friedeberg's 2013 Too Much is Not Enough exhibition at the Casa Diana Gallery in San Miguel de Allende featured Selig's Spiritual Guides series of paintings. Selig's artwork was included in Friedeberg's 2014 Manos por Mexico exhibition at the Franz Mayer Museum, where it drew over 18,000 visitors; it was later exhibited at the  Pinacoteca de Nuevo León in Monterrey.  In 2014, a portrait painted by Selig was featured in the exhibition Joan Quinn Captured at the Brand Library and Art Center in  Glendale, California. A solo exhibition of Selig's latest Magic Talismans series of paintings opened on April 1, 2015, at the Sollano 16 gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. In September 2015, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City displayed Selig's work in its 10-year anniversary exhibition 10 años de "Arte Vivo". An exhibition of Selig's  Magic Talismans paintings was presented at Art Basel 2015 in Miami Beach by the Bertil Bernhardt Design and Art Gallery.

Painting technique
Selig's art was inspired and influenced by Mexican culture, along with Meso-American magical talisman symbols and mysticism, as were his European mentors who were Mexican expatriate Surrealists. Selig painted with an oil paint medium and used an easel. At age 20, the artist Bridget Bate TIchenor taught him an Italian 16th-century painting technique that she had learned from artist Paul Cadmus in 1944. The labor-intensive painting formula involved multiple transparent thin oil glazes, building layers applied with #000 sable brushes on egg-shell gesso, resulting in a deep, detailed and jewel-like three-dimensional finish. Mexican Surrealist Pedro Friedeberg introduced Selig to esotericism and shared many of his creative interests, helping build the foundation of Selig's career as an artist. Friedeberg guided Selig's perspective drawing and use of magical cosmograms and symbols. Selig's artwork can be considered both Surrealist and Magic Realist, but it does not adhere solely to the principles of Surrealism. His paintings juxtaposed spiritual themes that reflected his extensive 40-year background as an artist and spiritist.

References

External links

Zachary Selig website

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Cargiaca is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography
Cargiaca is just to the east of Mont Peloso ().

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Casaglione () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

Sights
Torra di Capigliolu: a Genoese tower
Tremeca: dolmen

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud


The Dominican Republic men's national volleyball team represents the Dominican Republic in international volleyball competitions. In the 1950s the squad twice ended up in fourth place at the Pan American Games (1955 and 1959). The dominant forces in men's volleyball in North and Central America are Cuba and the United States.

Results

World Championship
 1974 – 22nd place
  2018 – 24th place

Challenger Cup
 2023 – 6th place

NORCECA Championship
1969 – Did not enter
1971 – Did not enter
1973 – 6th place
1975 – Did not enter
1977 – 7th place
1979 – 4th place
1981 – 6th place
1983 – Did not enter
1985 – 4th place
1987 – 4th place
1989 – 6th place
1991 – 5th place
1993 – Did not enter
1995 – 6th place
1997 – 7th place
1999 – Did not enter
2001 – 4th place
2003 – Did not enter
2005 – 4th place
2007 – 5th place
2009 – 6th place
2011 – Did not enter
2013 – 6th place
2015 – Did not enter
2017 –  Silver medal
2019 – 6th place
2021 – 6th place
2023 – 4th place

Pan-American Cup
2006 –  Silver medal
2007 – 5th place
2008 –  Bronze medal
2009 –  Bronze medal
2010 – 6th place
2011 – 8th place
2012 –  Bronze medal
2013 – 6th place
2014 – 8th place
2015 – 8th place
2016 – 6th place
2017 – 6th place
2018 – 10th place
2019 – 9th place
2021 – 4th place
2022 – 7th place

America Cup
2007 – 6th place

Squads

2007 NORCECA Championship
Head Coach: Jacinto Campechano

References

External links
 Sports123
 NORCECA Rankings 1969-1999

Volleyball
Dominican Republic
Volleyball in the Dominican Republic
Men's sport in the Dominican Republic


Casalabriva () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Cauro (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Ciamannacce is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Coggia (;  ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

History
On 17 January 2010, bombs went off at two residences in Coggia, the entry "sdate G. Leclair FLNC piu che mai" was found in at least one of the sites.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department
Tour de Corse.

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Cognocoli-Monticchi is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Corrano (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Cozzano (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Cristinacce is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography
The village of Cristinacce is constructed on a rocky knoll at an altitude of 830m at the foot of the Col de Sevi (1100m), 70 km north of Ajaccio and 35 km from Sagone.  It is dominated to the north by the Capu di Melo (1562m) and to the east by the range of Tritore, culminating at more than 2000m.  The village numbers about 50 dwellings, the majority of which are only occupied during the summer.

The village is surrounded by chestnut trees that along with the pigs, cattle and gardens have supported the essential economy of the region up to the present day.  Tourism, pork butchery, sale of honey, preserves and chestnut flour are the main activities of the region which has benefitted from its inheritance and tourism.

The water wells of the village are very pure and numerous. One of these feeds the public fountain and is reputed to possess thermal values similar to Volvo water.

Many random walks from half to five days can be made around Cristinacce by a couple or a family.

Many artists have lived and still live in the village.  The paintings of one of them, Francoise Leca-Parodi are periodically exhibited in the town hall of Cristinacce.

History
By popular tradition, handed down from fathers to sons, it is said that Cristinacce was created in the Middle Ages by the three Versini brothers, shepherds from Niolo.  They finally quarrelled and two of them killed the third one.  The latter had many descendants and consequently, the majority of the inhabitants of Cristinacce are Versinis or their descendants (since 1830, 19 mayors of the village out of 20 were Versinis.

Up to the 15th century, the “Cristinacces” were composed of seven hamlets, burnt down by the Genoese in 1460 as a reprisal for a revolt instigated by Giovani Paolo da Leca, a minor local lord.  The village was probably rebuilt about 1480 on the same site, as seems to be indicated by a document of 1485 on the reorganisation of the region after several years of troubles.

In the 16th century, the invasion of the Barbarians again decimated the population.  In 1550, during one of these invasions, the neighbouring village of Évisa was pillaged and 80 men seized and taken away as slaves.  One of them, a certain Versini of Cristinacce, miraculously returned to the village after several years in exile.  His descendants have kept the memory of his past.

Population

Administration
List of the mayors of the village of Cristinacce:
 1830-1832 Givan Battisto Versini
 1833-1839 Simeone Versini
 1842-1849 Givan Battisto Versini
 1849-1852 Ambroise Versini
 1852-1860 Joseph-Antoine Versini
 1860-1870 Simeone Versini
 1870-1877 Jean-François Séraphin Versini
 1878-1891 Dominique Versini
 1892-1896 Simeon Arrihi
 1897-1899 Dominique François Versini
 1900-1904 Dominique François Versini
 1904-1909 Martin Versini
 1910-1911 Dominique Padovani
 1911-1912 Jean Versini
 1913-1920 Xavier Versini
 1920-1925 Bernardin Versini
 1925-1943 Dominique Antoine Versini
 1943-1945 Dominique Marie Versini
 1945-1959 Pierre Marie Versini
 1959-1970 Jean Baptiste Versini
 1971-1976 Dominique Antoine Camilli
 1977-1982 Jean-Pierre Filippini
 1983-2008 Jean-Baptiste Nesa
 2008-2013 Antoine Versini

Since 1830, 24 mayors have been appointed, and 19 of these had the same family name as the three founder brothers of the village in the Middle Ages.

Sights
Cristinacce church, building started in 1860, bell tower finished in 1901.

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

External links
Official site

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Cuttoli-Corticchiato (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Eccica-Suarella is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Évisa () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography

Climate
Évisa has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csb). The average annual temperature in Évisa is . The average annual rainfall is  with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Évisa was  on 11 July 1984; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 10 February 2013.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Foce is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Forciolo is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Bussière-Badil (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France, part of the Parc naturel régional Périgord Limousin.

The place is first mentioned in 768 when the Order of Saint Benedict built a priory there. The Romanesque art-style church was built in the 12th century.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Dordogne department
 Parc naturel régional Périgord Limousin

References

Bussierebadil


Fozzano (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

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Busserolles is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of Dordogne


Breuilh (; ) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Sanilhac.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Frasseto is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Bouzic (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Geography
The river Céou forms part of the commune's northeastern border, then flows west through its northern part.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne département

References

Communes of Dordogne


A hemicycle is a semicircular, or horseshoe-shaped, legislative debating chamber where members sit to discuss and vote on their business. Although originally of Ancient Greek roots, the term and modern design derive from French politics and practice.

Usage
The circular shape is designed to encourage consensus among political parties rather than confrontation, such as in the Palace of Westminster, where the government and opposition parties face each other on opposing sets of benches. The design is used in most European countries (and hence was adopted by the European Parliament) and the United States.

The United Kingdom, which is the originator of the Westminster system, does not use a hemicycle. However, two of the three devolved legislatures, the Scottish Parliament and Senedd (Welsh Parliament), do, while the Northern Ireland Assembly is a hybrid "horseshoe" format.

Arrangement
In the case of Australia (pictured below), the two largest parties still face each other, whereas in the Scottish Parliament's hemicycle, the largest party sits in the middle. However, some hemicycles follow a strict left-right arrangement with, for example, a left wing governing party sitting on the left and the right wing opposition on the right. In these cases election results are often portrayed in the hemicycle to show the results of left wing or right wing coalitions (reaching 50% in the centre, where centrist third parties are located) for the formation of a majority.

Variations
Some Westminster-system countries outside the UK, such as India, New Zealand and Australia, have confrontational benches, but the end segment is curved to create a partial hemicycle, while other countries, such as the People's Republic of China, have a single set of benches facing towards a stage area (which reflects the one-party system in operation there).

Gallery

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Debate chamber
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Bouteilles-Saint-Sébastien (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Geography
The Lizonne forms the commune's southwestern border.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne département

References

Communes of Dordogne


Giuncheto is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Enclaves and exclaves
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Granace is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

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Grossa (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department
Bizzicu Rossu

References

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Grosseto-Prugna (;  or ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Torra di Capiteddu
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

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Bourrou (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne département

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Bourniquel (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of Dordogne


Guagno is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department in France on the island of Corsica.

The Guagno River, also called the Fiume Grosso, flows through the commune from east to west.
It is a tributary of the Liamone River.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Bourgnac (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne département

References

Communes of Dordogne


Guargualé is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Bourg-des-Maisons (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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References

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Guitera-les-Bains (), commonly known as Guitera (), is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

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Bouniagues (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne département
Château de l'Herm

References

Communes of Dordogne


Boulazac (; Limousin: Bolasac) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Boulazac Isle Manoire.

Population

Sport
The Boulazac Basket Dordogne (BBD) is a French basketball club, based in Boulazac.

See also
Communes of the Dordogne département

References

Sister Cities

 Bibbiena, Italy

Former communes of Dordogne


Bosset (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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References

Communes of Dordogne


Borrèze (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne département

References

Communes of Dordogne


Lecci is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica. Its name comes from the Italian word for Holly Oak, which was an important resource for many years.

Population

Sights
Torra di San Benedettu
Torra di San Ciprianu

See also
 Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department
 Former railway station

References

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Bjørnemyr is a Norwegian village located on the west coast of the municipality of Nesodden. The Bjørnemyr Centre contains a grocery store, a hairdresser and spa, and a doctor's office. Recently a small mall was built not far from the Bjørnemyr Centre, which included a grocery store, a small café, a health store, and cutlery. The Sunnaas Hospital lies near Bjørnemyr. Bjørnemyr has an elementary school and a kindergarten situated right next to each other.
Bjørnemyr Elementary School has a section for both physically and mentally challenged children.

References
 https://web.archive.org/web/20071027183136/http://www.oppvekst.nesodden.kommune.no/bjornemyr/index.htm

Villages in Akershus
Nesodden


Bonneville-et-Saint-Avit-de-Fumadières (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Levie (; ) is a commune in the French department of Corse-du-Sud, collectivity of Corsica, France.

Population

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References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Lopigna () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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References

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Boisseuilh (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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References

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Loreto-di-Tallano is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

Places
Saint-Pierre Church

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Boisse (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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References

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Blis-et-Born (; ) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Bassillac et Auberoche.

Population

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Marignana () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography

Climate

Marignana has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Marignana is . The average annual rainfall is  with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in February, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Marignana was  on 3 August 2017; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 11 February 2012.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Besse (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Church
The church of St Martin, Besse, dates from the late 11thc.  It was part of a Benedictine priory, replaced by Augustines in the 13thc, and was constructed by the old château of Besse.

What remains now is the part of the nave closest to the transept, and the West façade with the porch. The rest of the nave was built during the 12thc with a guard room above. The walls are pierced with loopholes for the archers and other defensive measures during the Hundred Years' War.  The English were repulsed but by 1454 church and village were in a state of abandon.  The lord of the village, Raymond-Bernard de Gauléjac brought new tenants in from Quercy and Rouergue.

The church became the parish church in the 14thc.  The transept and the choir date from the 15thc.  In the following century, the church depended on the canonical chapter of Biron. In 1648, the church was restored with materials from the old château.

In 1961, paintings were discovered in the South transept.

The West façade and the porch

Porch

This is the most remarkable part of the church.  The porch comprises two decorated Romanesque voussures ornées below an archivolt, resting on colonnettes and framed by lateral dosserets which mount to the height of the imposts.  These colonnettes continue below the l'archivolt to a corniche supported by corbels forming the base of a triangular fronton decorated with lozenges.

The themes of the porch sculpture, expressing the messianic Redemption, are read from left to right:

Isaiah, standing with a book in his hands, recoils from a vision of an angel bearing a glowing charcoal towards his lips,
A Seraph with three pairs of wings and showing the palms of his hands
Adam and Eve, naked, standing by the Tree of Life, hide their sex.  Adam looks back to listen to Jehovah who has a halo and holds out his hand.  On the left is inscribed: ADA VBI ES and on the right: XI RINVS
Adam and Eve are clothed as a result of their sin; the serpent twined itself around the Tree of Life.
A stag gallops before a hunter. A small person can be seen between its antlers.  This illustrates the legende of Saint Eustace.  This represents the Quest for God.
Saint Michel, standing with a shield, slays the dragon.
An angel plunges towards the person seated on a chair and seizes his hands; this is the Deliverance of Saint Peter-in-Chains.

In the centre, two angels raise a small seated man.  An inscription says:
(A)NGELUS DOMIN(I)...AN...S...N...EL...(P)ETRUS O...E.  This refers to Saint Peter the Exorcist, os Saint Peter in Chains, of whom the Golden Legends says that when he suffered martyrdom one of the executioners saw his souls ascending to Heaven borne by two angels.

The murals in the South transept

These late 16thc paintings, discovered in 1961, were restored without the authorisation of the Department of Historic Monuments.  They were probably not done with sufficient attention to the necessary minutiae, and are not all visible.

On the West wall, Christ mocked by four soldiers, a scene of martyrdom.

On the South wall, right of the window, the Arrest of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane with the Kiss of Judas.  To the right, the dead Christ.

Population

See also
Communes of the Dordogne département

References

Classement de l'église Saint-Martin de Bess [archive], base Mérimée, ministère français de la Culture. Consulté le 19 janvier 2010
Françoise Auricoste, voir Bibliographie, tome 1, p. 70-76

This is a translation from the French article on Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Jean Secret - Périgord roman - Zodiaque (collection "la nuit des temps" n°27) - La Pierre-qui-Vire - 2e édition - 1979
Pierre Dubourg-Noves - Besse, église Saint-Martin dans Congrès archéologique de France. 137e session. Périgord Noir. 1979 - pp. 245–254 Société Française d'Archéologie - Paris - 1982
Françoise Auricoste, La bastide de Villefranche du Périgord, capitale de la châtaigneraie (1261-1800), tome II : 1500-1800, p. 61-66, Éditions du Roc de Bourzac, Bayac, 1994 ().

Communes of Dordogne
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Moca-Croce is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Monacia-d'Aullène (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

It is part of the canton of Grand Sud.

Geography
Monacia-d'Aullène is  west northwest of Figari. It was created in 1864 by dividing Aullène. To the north is the  high Mount Cagna, known for its balanced granite boulders named the "Man of Cagna", where the isolated hamlet of Giannucio is located. To the southwest, the commune has an opening to the coast between Point Roccapino to the northwest and the Cala di Furnellu. The latter is preceded by Caniscione Point, on which is the Genoese Tower of Olmeto.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud


Murzo is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Bertric-Burée (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne département

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Communes of Dordogne


Olivese () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Beleymas is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne
Dordogne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Olmeto is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

Archaeological sites
There are two archaeological sites in the commune: Cuntorba and Figa la Sarra.

See also
Tour de la Calanca
Tour de Micalona
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Beaussac (; Limousin: Baussat) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mareuil en Périgord.

The community is located in the Périgord Limousin Regional Nature Park.

History
On Cassini's early map of France between 1756 and 1789, the village is identified as the Beaussat. In 1793, it is Baussac and in 1801, it is back to Beaussat.

Geography
The Lizonne forms the commune's southern border. The stream of Beaussac (ruisseau de Beaussac), a tributary of the Lizonne, forms the commune's southeastern border and part of the commune's southwestern border, separating it from Puyrenier and Rudeau-Ladosse. The town is located  southeast of Angoulême, the largest nearby city.

Transportation
Airports
 Angoulême
 Périgueux (Bassillac)
 Cognac

Tourism
 Barouty Cave (grotto) in Pranzac
 Golf de la Prèze (18-hole golf course) in Montbron
  – a private mansion located on the Périgord in Beaussac. Overlooking the Nizonne valley, it has been a registered historic monument since 1948.

Personalities
 Alain de Monéys – member of the city council and first Deputy Mayor of Beaussac. Monéys was killed in 1870 by villagers in Hautefaye, after his report of the Franco-Prussian War was perceived to support the enemy. The case was mentioned in the 2009 romance of Jean Teulé, entitled Mangez-le si vous voulez.

Population

See also
Communes of the Dordogne department

References

Further reading
 Corbin, Alain. Le village des "cannibales", Aubier, 1990
 Marbeck, Georges. Hautefaye, l'année terrible, Robert Laffont, 1982
 Teulé, Jean. Mangez-le si vous voulez, Éditions Julliard, 2009.

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Beauronne (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Olmiccia is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Beauregard-et-Bassac is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Orto (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Beauregard-de-Terrasson (, literally Beauregard of Terrasson; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Osani () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

Genoese towers
Torra d'Elbu
Torra di Girolata
Torra di l'Isula di Gargali

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Palneca (; , ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Beaupouyet () is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Partinello (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Beaumont-du-Périgord (, literally Beaumont of the Périgord; ) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France, on 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Beaumontois-en-Périgord.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Former communes of Dordogne
Dordogne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Pastricciola is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Hubert of Palestrina was an Italian papal legate and Cardinal. He was created bishop of Palestrina in 1068. He was legate, with Gerald of Ostia, to the Emperor Henry IV, for Pope Gregory VII; a temporary reconciliation was achieved in 1074  They also asserted papal authority over Liemar, archbishop of Bremen.

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11th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Palestrina
Diplomats of the Holy See
11th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops


Bayac (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department
Château de Bayac
Gravettian, archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic; the type-site, La Gravette, is near Bayac

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Communes of Dordogne


Petreto-Bicchisano (; ) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

Settiva
Settiva is an archaeological site in Corsica. It is located in the commune

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Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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Communes of Corse-du-Sud
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Bardou (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Baneuil (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department
Château de Baneuil

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Communes of Dordogne


Badefols-d'Ans (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


La Bachellerie (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

Population

Notable people
 The French sprinter, journalist and writer Guy Lagorce was born in La Bachellerie in 1937.
 Geographer and historian Thérèse Sclafert was born in La Bachellerie in 1876.

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Auriac-du-Périgord (, literally Auriac of the Périgord; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Aubas (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne


Piana () is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department
Calanques de Piana, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Torra di Turghju

References

Communes of Corse-du-Sud
Plus Beaux Villages de France
Corse-du-Sud communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Archignac (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Population

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Communes of the Dordogne department

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Communes of Dordogne