En un regard
Le château en bref
Built between 1852 and 1854 on the ruins of the 'Torra Mozza', a former Genoese tower, by some 300 workers, the château belonged to Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, until 1870. A deputy for Corsica in the Constituent Assembly of the Second Republic and president of the General Council of Corsica, Pierre-Napoléon had an eventful military career (Colombia, Algeria, the Battle of Zaatcha), tarnished by legal troubles and accusations of murder in the United States and in Rome, which led the Emperor himself to declare him ineligible. Sold in 1925 to a notary from Calenzana, converted into a school in the 1960s and then bought in 1970 by a company planning a tourist complex that never materialised, the château now lies abandoned, surrounded by a wine estate overlooking the Figarella valley.