Corsica, the jewel of the Med: trek the GR20, relax on sunlit shores, and enjoy island traditions through food, wine, and warm hospitality.
Highlights
- Legendary GR20, Europe’s toughest trail, stretching across Corsica
- An island where dramatic peaks cover more than two-thirds of the land
- Scandola Nature Reserve, France’s first UNESCO treasure
- A culinary heritage shaped by centuries and sustained by tradition
Corsica
Corsica, the jewel of the Med: trek the GR20, relax on sunlit shores, and enjoy island traditions through food, wine, and warm hospitality.
Highlights
- Legendary GR20, Europe’s toughest trail, stretching across Corsica
- An island where dramatic peaks cover more than two-thirds of the land
- Scandola Nature Reserve, France’s first UNESCO treasure
- A culinary heritage shaped by centuries and sustained by tradition
Why Visit Corsica on a Hiking Tour?
Benvenuti in Corsica!
Corsica is a Mediterranean jewel, captivating travelers with its contrasts – a place where untamed wilderness meets charming coastal towns, and ancient traditions live on in the rhythms of everyday life.
Birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, the island is rich in history, from the iconic Genoese watchtowers guarding its coastline to the traditional villages nestled in its mountainous heart.
Whether you’re hiking the legendary GR20 trail across high ridgelines with sweeping views of the sea, enjoying the Bocognano-Vivario-Vizzavona circuit through pine forests and rock pools, or wandering through Corsican towns like Ajaccio and Corte, Corsica offers an experience unlike any other.
It is an island where you can experience both exhilarating adventure and deep cultural immersion.
Corsica’s cultural heritage is as captivating as its landscapes, with locals proudly preserving the Corsican language, traditional music, and folk customs.
Its cuisine is equally distinctive, featuring chestnut breads and desserts, artisanal charcuterie, and fine local wines that together offer a true taste of the island’s identity and traditions.
On foot, you’ll uncover Corsica’s many faces: the dramatic GR20 trail, famed for its demanding yet rewarding alpine stages; the lush valleys and high granite peaks of the interior; and the gentle coastal walks that lead you to sandy bays and crystal-clear waters.
If multi-day hiking sounds too demanding, walking holidays offer an accessible way to explore Corsica’s wild and unspoiled nature. Along easy-to-follow routes, you can discover wild depths of the Richjusa Gorge, forested riversides, cascading waterfalls, panoramic mountain ridges, and breathtaking heights of Bocca Palmente as well as coastal views.
Best of all, wherever your steps take you, Corsica’s authentic spirit is always close at hand. Say yes to the call of Corsica and let your adventure begin!
About Hiking in Corsica
Corsica is a mountain range that happens to sit in the Mediterranean. Peaks above 2,700 m rise a few kilometres from the coast, and nowhere else in Europe puts high alpine terrain and warm sea this close together.
You can be on bare granite at 2,000 m in the morning and swimming before dinner, which is the whole reason walkers keep coming back.
Every Corsican route we run is built around the island’s granite spine.
GR20 Complete, Calenzana to Conca, sixteen stages end to end.
North GR20, the harder half, with the chains and the biggest days.
South GR20, gentler underfoot and still spectacular.
Corsica Walking Holidays, mountain villages from Bocognano, no high traverse.
The season runs May to October, longer than the Alps at both ends because the island sits so far south.
May and early June are best for the coastal routes, green and not yet hot;
June to September is the window for the high traverse, once the snow has gone from the cols;
October returns the coast to walkable temperatures and empties the villages.
The GR20 deserves its reputation. Sixteen stages along the watershed, with chains and scrambling on the northern half, big daily ascents and a lot of loose granite. It is not a walk you drift into.
The reward is terrain that looks nothing like the rest of the Mediterranean, and it is walkable in halves if the full traverse is too much.
On the high route, nights are simple: a bunk room, a cooked meal and a sky with nothing in it. The cross-island and coastal trails use village guesthouses and small hotels, which are a good deal more comfortable.
Corsican food on those lower routes is its own reason to go, built on chestnut flour, brocciu cheese and charcuterie from pigs that forage the forest.
The GR20 is the serious one. Exposure, loose rock and fast-building storms account for most incidents, and several stages have no escape route once started. Refuges book out and weather windows matter.
On the lower trails the issue is simpler: heat and water. Summer stages in the interior run long and dry, and shade is not guaranteed. Knowing what the waymarks mean helps on the linking paths.
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