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SALICE - U SALGE
20121 Salice
Presentation
U Salge, name of the village in Corsica, means "the willow". This tree, whose presence of a particularly robust specimen, is present mainly at the edges of rivers.
In the Middle Ages, Salice was the capital of the Cruzzini pot. This small mountain village dominates the Cruzzini valley. Very stretched out and traversed by strette (streets in Corsica), Salice was probably founded during the 18th century. It is marked by the testimony of the successive settlements which moved as the invasions progressed to establish themselves definitively in its current location, towards the end of the 16th century.
The inhabitants, who approached a thousand inhabitants at the end of the 19th century, made up an agro-pastoral community renowned for its strong cohesion vis-à-vis neighbors from other valleys and its capacity to resist invaders.
Today, we find the remains of this past life in three oil mills, half a dozen chestnut flour mills and around thirty bread ovens.
Salice, which has 1,650 hectares of forests on its municipal territory, is crossed by many paths, including the paved mule track leading to San Giovanni Battista.
For the record: Salice is one of the last villages in Corsica which continues to practice mazzeri fires, on the night of July 31 to August 1.
Tradition has it that that night, all the inhabitants of the village light fires in front of their houses and at the crossroads to repel the mazzeri and prevent them from moving. The children then cross the village with pots and pans and other utensils to make noise and drive them away permanently… until next year!
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