{"id":489,"date":"2018-07-12T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/?p=489"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:31:41","slug":"lion-roccapina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/lion-roccapina\/","title":{"rendered":"The lion of Roccapina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twenty minutes from Sart\u00e8ne<\/strong><\/a> in the direction of Porto-Vecchio<\/strong><\/a>before taking the \"turning of the extreme south\": a viewpoint over the cove of Roccapina<\/strong> and below it the surprising shape of a lion <\/strong>which seems to watch over the sea, turned towards the Genoese tower.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no human intervention here; this is a natural representation, with the exception of the \"crown\" it seems to be wearing on its head, the ruins of a building. In the background, a foretaste of the coastline of The Lion of Roccapina, the southernmost tip of the Mediterranean. Corsica <\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The history and legend of the Lion of Roccapina<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to legend, a lord nicknamed \"the Lion\" by the barbarians found himself petrified after invoking death on a hunting day in front of a young woman who refused him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roccapina<\/strong> is also a place steeped in history, where legends and truths are closely intertwined. Indeed, this majestic coastline symbolising thefar south<\/strong> of the Corsica<\/strong> is also the scene of frequent storms, with ships often finding themselves in difficulty. In the 19th century, a steamship called the Tasmania crossed this channel at night and broke up on the shore. Rocher des Moines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, when you go to the village a few miles inland, you'll find remnants of the ship, such as mercury clocks. The ship was carrying a gift from an Indian prince to the Queen of England. The gift in question was found with other objects on the coast, a chest filled with rubies and countless precious stones. It was returned to the Queen of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About twenty minutes from Sart\u00e8ne towards Porto-Vecchio, before taking the \"extreme south turn\": a viewpoint overlooking the Roccapina cove and below, the surprising shape of a lion that seems to be watching the sea, turned towards the Genoese tower. There has been no human intervention here; this is a natural representation, with the exception of the \"crown\" it seems to be wearing on its head, the ruins of a building. In the background, a foretaste of the coastline of Le Lion de Roccapina, the southernmost tip of Corsica! The history and legend of the Lion of Roccapina According to legend, <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"Visiter le lion de Roccapina - Corse Vacances","_seopress_titles_desc":"Surplombant la mer, le lion de Roccapina est une v\u00e9ritable \u0153uvre d'art sculpt\u00e9 par la nature. Ce site est donc in\u00e9vitable pendant vos vacances en Corse.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[{"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_type":"none"}],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-voir","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40896,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/40896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}