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103 walk aCross CorsiCa's
déserT des aGriaTes
the desert's rugged coastal path - one of the
longest stretches of protected coastline in the
Mediterranean. The route west from St Florent to
Plage de Loto is the most popular, so if you want to
go it alone start from the west - at Ostriconi - and
head east. A good place to stay the night before is
the nearby Pietra Monetta, a
ferme-auberge
(farm
inn) where you can feast on homegrown Corsican
food - such as roast lamb sautéed in local herbs
- on the vine-clad outdoor terrace or inside the
eighteenth-century dining room.
The path into the desert leaves from behind
the dunes of Plage de Ostriconi and you'll
soon experience the waft of sweet-smelling
Most of Corsica's tourists go to the resorts in the
south or to the umbrella-lined beaches of Ajaccio
on the west coast. Yet some of the island's most
idyllic beaches are in the north, in the unlikely
setting of the Désert des Agriates - a remote,
50-square-kilometre protected area of dense
scrubland east of Île Rousse.
The most easterly of these beaches, Plage de
Loto, can be reached by any number of pleasure
boats from the jetty at St Florent, or you can
walk there from St Florent via a 40km trek along
Walking along the Désert
des Agriates coast path
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