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Barbaggio (Italian pronunciation: [barˈbadd͡ʒo]; French: [baʁbaʒjo]; Corsican: Barbaghju) is a commune in the French department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica. It is known for its wine, its scenery, and the prehistoric site of Strette.

Barbaggio
Barbaghju
Commune
A general view of the village, with Patrimonio at the bottom left
Location of Barbaggio
Barbaggio
Barbaggio
Coordinates: 42°41′05″N 9°22′25″E
CountryFrance
RegionCorsica
DepartmentHaute-Corse
ArrondissementCalvi
CantonBiguglia-Nebbio
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Étienne Marchetti[1]
Area
1
10.86 km2 (4.19 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
294
  Density27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
2B029 /20253
Elevation7–940 m (23–3,084 ft)
(avg. 300 m or 980 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography


Barbaggio is located on an inland plateau below Cap Corse on the southwest slopes of the 960 metres (3,150 ft) high Serra di Pigno some 8 km east of Saint-Florent and 5 km south-east of Patrimonio. In times of conflict it controls the Col de Teghime, a 536-metre (1,759 ft) high pass through the Serra mountains leading to Bastia, 10 kilometres (6 mi) to the north-east. Barbaggio has a fine view of the Golfe de St-Florent but does not itself border the sea. Traditionally an area belonging to the Nebbio region, which has been called since Antiquity Conca d'Oro. Barbaggio is one of 14 communes that make up the current Canton of Biguglia-Nebbio.


Relief


The hills of Monte Sant'Angelo
The hills of Monte Sant'Angelo

Barbaggio backs onto the western slope of the mountains of the Serra di Pigno, the extension of the dorsal schist of Cap Corse. It covers the plain to the south-west of the village. The eastern side is delineated by the valley of the Ruisseau de Lucitello stream with the village built on a rocky ridge under the Pigno (958 m).

Its boundaries are defined as follows:

Barbaggio does not border the sea - the bridge on the D81 is located approximately 700 m from the sea.

The plateau is drained by small streams such as the Ruisseau de Lucitello and provides the commune with its chief economic resource: 45 hectares (110 acres) of grapevines. The commune is known for its fine wine. Of the 1,086 ha (2,680 acres) remainder, 610 ha (1,500 acres) are woods. Barbaggio shares a nature reserve of 32 ha (79 acres) with nearby Oletta.[3]


Hydrography


Barbaggio is located in the drainage basin of the Ruiseau de la Trutta which flows west to Olzu in the Gulf of Saint-Florent. Upstream it is called the Ruisseau de Vaccareccia. It rises from the Cima di Malaspina at 470 m above sea level. It is fed by the Ruisseau de Natio Creek (upstream called Ruisseau de Lucitello) and its tributary the Ruisseau de Forci.


Climate and vegetation


As for other communes in the Nebbio region and those along the western coast of Cap Corse, Barbaggio enjoys a Mediterranean climate with moderate temperature changes. The snow only reaches the heights of Pigno a few days a year, rarely dropping below 400 metres. Snowfall disrupts traffic in the Col de Teghime (536 m above sea level) only rarely.

Rainfall that should refresh the Serra di Pigno is low in summer and so the flanks of the mountain are arid, sunny, and exposed, being the sulana (or sunny-side) of the mountain and subject to frequent libeccio - the prevailing westerly wind: dry, violent, and often mixed with the punente, the other westerly wind. Because of its geographical position and its area of plain, Barbaggio is relatively well protected from the north winds - the Tramuntana in winter: a healthy, dry, violent and icy wind; and the wet winter north-Easter which brings cold and snow from Italy.

The vegetative cover in uncultivated areas has different landscapes at different levels. Near the ridges vegetation is low moorish carved by strong winds with rocky grasslands. On lower levels it is dense maquis shrubland consisting of many thorny shrubs (Thorny broom and Corsican broom) as well as brambles , Pouzin rosebushes (Rosa pouzinii), and Sarsaparille which are often impenetrable and without trees due to frequent fires. At the level of the village there are olive trees, Holly Oaks, and even some chestnuts. Around the village are palm trees, mimosas, prickly pears, and agaves which bring an exotic touch.

The cultivated areas are located on the plain. They are mostly vines producing wines and muscat under an AOC. In peak summer season they have a supply of water from Lake Padula .


Communication and transport


The Hamlet of Piazze
The Hamlet of Piazze

Road access


The D81 road from Bastia to Saint-Florent passes through the commune and crosses the Col de Teghime (536 m). Descending from the pass, Barbaggio is the first of the two villages that are located on the route.

The Col de Teghime in the south of the commune is the junction of the D81 and the D38 which goes south-west to Poggio-d'Oletta.

The D338 road leads to the top of Pigno, south-east of the commune, where there are telecommunication towers. Its junction with the D81 is nearly 700 m east of the Col de Teghime. It ends in a cul-de-sac in remote Pigno with the telecommunications facilities at 4.1 km.


Neighbouring communes and villages


[4]


Town planning


The Hamlet of Poggio
The Hamlet of Poggio

The village of Barbaggio is built on a rocky ridge under the Pigno (958 m). There are three other hamlets in the commune:

The plain is occupied by isolated farms.

The houses have austere facades without balconies and are 2 or 3 levels. Most are rendered and restored. Roofs alternate between slate and red tiles.

There is an orientation table at the village and at the Col de Teghime where the views are superb over the Gulf of Saint-Florent, the mountains of Nebbio, and the sunny limestone slopes covered with vineyards. At Pigno the view is spectacular: on one side is the Tyrrhenian Sea and the islands of the Tuscan archipelago, and on the other is the Gulf of Saint-Florent, the Agriates, and almost all of Nebbio.


History



Prehistory


The rivulets that drain the plateau beneath Barbaggio and nearby Patrimonio gather into a single stream, the Ruisseau la Strutta or Rivière de la Strutta which, flowing between 200-metre (660 ft) cliffs, crosses a short alluvial plain and empties into the Gulf of Saint Florent. Route D81 leaving Saint-Florent bears north-east along the alluvium and turns inland through the gorge. Just over the Barbaggio border at the base of a cliff is the prehistoric Abri de Strette meaning "Strette Shelter" where strette means "narrow place". It is one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Corsica.

The material of the bottom layer has been carbon-dated to 9140±300 BP or about 7000 BC which is well into the Pre-Neolithic period. It contains shell middens and the bones of small animals, such as Sardinian pika, believed to be extinct, as well as a lithic assemblage. Chemical analysis of the stones identifies them as non-Corsican. This level is believed to have been a seasonal hunter-gatherer site of non-Corsicans arriving by boat.[5]

The Early Neolithic period, starting about 6000 BC, is identified by shards of Cardium pottery. Subsequent layers indicate a continuous occupation until the end of the Bronze Age; i.e., this was an indigenous village commanding the route to the plateau and the pass. It was abandoned at the start of the Iron Age but was sporadically occupied afterwards.

In 1965 a Statue menhir in perfect condition was discovered near a place called Foata on the plain of Barbaggio. It was named U Nativu.

In 1985 the area where U Nativu had been discovered was converted into a sports field. An urgent rescue excavation was carried out by J-G. Ottaviani and J. Magdeleine. The seven trenches dug led to the discovery of three blocks of Miocene limestone (the rock from which U Nativu was cut) proving the likelihood that several stones were cut in very ancient times.[6]

Since then the U Nativu has been displayed at Patrimonio and is now called "de Patrimonio".


Middle Ages


In the Middle Ages Barbaggio, then Barbaio − belonged to the Diocese of Nebbio, (From the Latin Nebulensis meaning "cloudy"), which consisted of a section of north-west Corsica and the south-west coast of Cap Corse. These facts are attested by the Cartulary of Nebbio, a fragment of a 13th-century collection of documents published by the bishops of Nebbio concerning the notarization of land titles from the 10th to the 13th centuries AD. One of the notaries was Johannes de S. Martino de Barbaio, a priest. The language of the document shows that the Corsican language had already evolved from Latin.[7]


Modern Times


In the 16th century the Pieve of Patrimonio was made up of inhabited places called: lo Palazzo, la Ficagia, la Picinasca, lo Cardeto, lo Calvello, la Feruciasca, Barbagio, Brigheta, and Casatico. Around 1550 the Pieve had about 550 inhabitants.[8]

At the time of the Great Revolt of the Corsicans against the Genoese (1729-1769) Antoine Dominic Monti, in his chronology of events, reported the following on the participation of the people of Barbaghju against the occupying Genovese:[9]

In the 18th century, when Corsica was ceded to France by the Genovese, the Pieve took the name of Pieve d'Olmeta. At the French Revolution in 1789, the pievi became cantons. The piève for Barbaggio became the Canton of Saint-Florent.


Contemporary Era



Battle of the Col de Teghime

Memorial Plaque in the Barbaggio village square
Memorial Plaque in the Barbaggio village square

On 3 October 1943 the Col de Teghime was the scene of a battle between the German forces defending the pass against the 2nd group of Moroccan tabors, who landed in the Gulf of Saint Florent commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Boyer de Latour Moulin. The few German fortifications at this strategic point were removed at the cost of heavy fighting with knives.

To commemorate the feat of arms a monument was erected on the side of the D81 road and a gun (possibly of Russian origin) was placed there.

The town of Barbaggio honoured Pierre Boyer de Latour Moulin by giving his name to the village square.


Post-War

In 1954 the Canton of Saint-Florent was formed with the communes of Farinole, Patrimonio, Saint-Florent, and Barbaggio, which then had 104 inhabitants.

In 1971–1973, new cantons were created. The Canton of La Conca-d'Oro was created with the merger of the former cantons of Oletta and Saint-Florent.


Administration


The Town Hall
The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[10]

FromToName
20012014Olivier Mei
20142026Étienne Marchetti

Demography


In 2017 the commune had 303 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1800 263    
1806 249−0.91%
1821 262+0.34%
1831 304+1.50%
1836 281−1.56%
1841 314+2.25%
1846 309−0.32%
1851 330+1.32%
1856 329−0.06%
1861 303−1.63%
1866 307+0.26%
1872 300−0.38%
1876 319+1.55%
1881 293−1.69%
1886 282−0.76%
1891 252−2.22%
1896 261+0.70%
1901 196−5.57%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1906 205+0.90%
1911 177−2.89%
1921 151−1.58%
1926 127−3.40%
1931 142+2.26%
1936 160+2.42%
1946 119−2.92%
1954 104−1.67%
1962 77−3.69%
1968 73−0.89%
1975 75+0.39%
1982 78+0.56%
1990 111+4.51%
1999 164+4.43%
2007 206+2.89%
2012 243+3.36%
2017 303+4.51%
Source: EHESS[11] and INSEE[12]

Economy


The AOC Patrimonio Wine Route
The AOC Patrimonio Wine Route

Viticulture is the chief industry of Barbaggio. Vines have been grown on terraced hillsides there and in most other villages of the wine-making region of Cap Corse since antiquity, possibly since prehistory. The wine industry of France in recent times is regulated by a governmental system of certification called the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC), which specifies where and under what conditions the grapes for its labels can be grown. Barbaggio is certified to make the following labels:

These are high-quality light table wines of minimal aging and short life made from grapes grown by several land-owners of the region.

Barbaggio is also the source stone blocks for the creation or strengthening of breakwaters, used in the port of Bastia and the Marina of Toga, and also for the construction of walls and parapets of all types. Two old open quarries are no longer used with those next to the D81 having been rehabilitated. The old quarry next to the D38 on the slopes of Monte Secco produced stone for masonry in irregular sizes but with a naturally smooth face of ochre/brown.

The quarry at Ponte Fesso, which produces very large metagabbros,[Note 2] may be extended to meet demand. The deposit consists of metagabbros in leptynite[Note 3] veins.


Culture and heritage


The War Memorial
The War Memorial

Civil heritage



Religious Heritage


The Church of Saint-Marcel
The Church of Saint-Marcel

Environmental heritage



Notable people linked to the commune



See also



Notes and references



Notes


  1. All the proper names used are Genoveses proper names
  2. A Gabbro that has undergone Metamorphism
  3. Fine-grained Metamorphic rock consisting of Quartz, alkaline feldspar, sometimes garnet but little mica or amphibole.

References


  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
  3. Brunet, Roger. "Barbaggio (Barbaghju)". France, le trésor des régions (in French). Retrieved 10 May 2008.
  4. Google Maps
  5. "Préhistory". Histoire du Nebbiu (in French). 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  6. Eugène Bonifay Corse in: Gallia préhistoire, Vol. 29, Issue 2, 1986, p. 337 (in French)
  7. Silio P. Scalfati, Latin et langue vernaculaire dans les actes notariés corses XIe-XVe siècle (in French).
  8. ADECEC Elements for a dictionary of proper names Section II, Les "pievi" et communautés au XVIe siècle (in French)
  9. The Great revolt of the Corsicans against the Genovese 1729-1769, A-D Monti, ADECEC, 1979 (in French)
  10. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  11. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Barbaggio, EHESS. (in French)
  12. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  13. "AOC Muscat du Cap Corse". Find the Vine. 1997. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  14. "AOC Patrimonio". Find the Vine. 1997. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  15. "AOC Vin de Corse". Find the Vine. 1997. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  16. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM2B000792 Painting: Saint Jerome in the Desert (in French)
  17. ZNIEFF 940031072 - Barbaggio/Teghime limestone ridges on the INPN website (in French)
  18. ZNIEFF 940004076 - Asylvatic ridges of Cap Corse on the INPN website (in French)
  19. ZNIEFF 940013101 - Defile of Strette and the Saint-Florent limestone hills on the INPN website (in French)
  20. FR9402006 - Stations à choux insulaires de Barbaggio et Poggio d'Oletta on the INPN website (in French)
  21. Mentioned on the Plaque in the Piazze village square



На других языках


[de] Barbaggio

Barbaggio (korsisch Barbaghju) ist eine Gemeinde im französischen Département Haute-Corse auf der Insel Korsika. Sie gehört zum Kanton Biguglia-Nebbio im Arrondissement Calvi. Nachbargemeinden sind Farinole im Nordwesten, Patrimonio im Norden, Ville-di-Pietrabugno im Nordosten, Bastia im Osten, Furiani im Südosten, Poggio-d’Oletta im Süden, Oletta im Südwesten sowie Saint-Florent im Westen. Das Siedlungsgebiet liegt durchschnittlich auf 300 Metern über dem Meeresspiegel und besteht aus den Dörfern Piazze, Poggio und Gorgaccia.
- [en] Barbaggio

[ru] Барбаджо

Барбаджо (фр. Barbaggio, корс. Barbaghju) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Корсика. Департамент коммуны — Верхняя Корсика. Входит в состав кантона Ла-Конка-д’Оро. Округ коммуны — Бастия.



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