page_title: Ajaccio
section_title: Civil heritage
hierarchical_section_title: Ajaccio / Culture and heritage / Civil heritage
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context_page_description: Ajaccio is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud, and head office of the Collectivité territoriale de Corse. It is also the largest settlement on the island. Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, 210 nautical miles southeast of Marseille.
  The original city went into decline in the Middle Ages, but began to prosper again after the Genoese built a citadel in 1492 to the south of the earlier settlement. After the Corsican Republic was declared in 1755 the Genoese continued to hold several citadels, including Ajaccio, until the French took control of the island.
  The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ajacciens or Ajacciennes. The most famous of these is Napoleon Bonaparte who was born in Ajaccio in 1769, and whose ancestral home, the Maison Bonaparte, is now a museum. Other dedications to him in the city include Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport.
context_section_description: The commune has many buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
  The Monument to General Abbatucci in the Place Abbatucci (1854)
  The Monument to Napoleon I in the Place d'Austerlitz (20th century)
  The Baciocchi Family Mansion at 9 Rue Bonaparte (18th century)
  The Fesch Palace at 48 bis Rue Cardinal-Fesch (1827)
  The Monument to the First Consul in the Place Foch (1850)
  The Peraldi House at 18 Rue Forcioli-Conti (1820)
  The Grand Hotel at Cours Grandval (1869)
  The old Château Conti at Cours Grandval (19th century)
  The Monument to Napoleon and his brothers in the Place du General de Gaulle (1864)
  The Monument to Cardinal Fesch at the Cour du Musée Fesch (1856)
  The old Alban Factory at 89 Cours Napoleon (1913)
  The Milelli House in the Saint-Antoine Quarter (17th century)
  The Hotel Palace-Cyrnos (1880), an old Luxury Hotel from the 19th century and a famous palace of the old days in the quarter "for foreigners" now converted into housing.
  The Lantivy Palace (1837), an Italian palace now headquarters of the prefecture of Corsica.
  The Hotel de Ville (1836)
  Napoleon Bonaparte's House (17th century) now a national museum: the Maison Bonaparte
  The old Lazaretto of Aspretto (1843)
  The Citadel (1554)
  The Sawmill at Les Salines (1944)
  The Lighthouse on the Sanguinaires Islands (1844)
  Other sites of interest
  The Monument in the Place du Casone
  The old town and the Borgu are typically Mediterranean with their narrow streets and picturesque buildings
  The Place Bonaparte, a quarter frequented chiefly by winter visitors attracted by the mild climate of the town.
  The Musée Fesch houses a large collection of Italian Renaissance paintings
  The Bandera Museum, a History Museum of Mediterranean Corsica
  The Municipal library has many early printed books of the 15th and 16th centuries
  The area known as "for foreigners" has a number of old palaces, villas, and buildings once built for the wintering British in the Belle Époque such as the Anglican Church and the Grand Hotel Continental. Some of the buildings are in bad condition and very degraded, others were destroyed for the construction of modern buildings.
  The Genoese towers: Torra di Capu di Fenu, Torra di a Parata, and Torra di Castelluchju in the Îles Sanguinaires archipelago
  The Square Pierre Griffi (in front of the railway station), hero of the Corsican Resistance, one of the members of the Pearl Harbour secret mission, the first operation launched in occupied Corsica to coordinate resistance.
  The Statue of Commandant Jean L'Herminier (in front of the ferry terminal), commander of the French submarine Casabianca (1935) which actively participated in the struggle for the liberation of Corsica in September 1943.
caption: The Bonaparte House
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