Fort de Vizzavona

The Pasciola fort (also spelled Pasciolo) was built in 1770 atop an 800-meter-high rocky outcrop, under the command of General de Vaux, appointed governor of Corsica by Louis XVI, one year after the Battle of Ponte Novu. To put this in context, the Republic of Genoa, indebted to the Kingdom of France, had just ceded Corsica to them in the Treaty of Versailles. After the Genoese occupation, Corsica changed hands, adding to the humiliation of a population caught between two powers, which would rise up under the leadership of Pasquale Paoli. The Pasciola fort, like the Vizzavona fort, was thus built to control strategic passageways used by Paoli's troops, the Nazis.