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SANT'ANDREA D'ORCINO - SANT'ANDREA D'ORCINU
20151 Sant-Andrea-D'orcino
Presentation
Charming village partly grouped in floors on a hill offering a vast panorama over the cultivated basin with its vineyards, orchards, olive trees from where you can admire the landscape as well as the Gulf of Liscia.
You will be able to see old old granite houses more or less exposed facing the sea.
The village is located 280 m above sea level, the town is crossed by the A Liscia river, the Fiuminale stream and the Pratilina stream. You will be able to see the tip of Montalbi (881 m) punta dei Mori.
In 1790, the village was set up as a commune. These gently rolling lands are suitable for the cultivation of cereals. In the 19th century, there were also vines, olive trees and chestnut trees.
The village was once deserted due to the repression of Genoa against the Cinarchesi. The parish church which gave its name to the town was built in the 16th century. The town stretches from east to west with narrow access to the sea, on the mountainside at an altitude of 300 m, in the heart of the ancient Cinarca pit. Sant "Andrea d´Orcino offers a vast panorama on the cultivated basin with its vineyards, orchards, olive trees, on the wooded hills, the maquis, the distant mountains and the sea.
The village is partly grouped in floors on a hill, the rest is scattered around. There are traditional style granite houses with thick walls. The houses are thus divided into two hamlets: Supranu and Pustanu. And the territory extends to the shore, following the river in Liscia, to the place called San Petru below the Castellu Cinarca (main medieval castle). The village also suffered the consequences of the Genoese repression against the Cinarchesi on the region, and like others around, it suffered from massive desertification and destruction, on the orders of the Office of Saint George because its inhabitants had not submitted to the Lordship of Leca. The village will not be rebuilt and reinvested until modern times. Sant’Andrea d´Orcino was not established as a municipality until 1790. These gently rolling lands were suitable for cereal cultivation, as evidenced by the presence of flour mills. In the 19th century, there were also olive trees and chestnut groves. Mill appearing on the Plan Terrier drawn up in 1791, which may date from the first half of the 18th century. Mentioned as the property of Vincent Gentili on the state of the flour mills in operation in 1828. At that time he used three people for its operation, the annual expenditure amounted to 100 francs and the products to 300 francs. Present on the land register of 1844 as the property of the Pinelli and Campinchi families, it also appears on the state of the flour mills drawn up in 1913, when it is the property of Mrs. Leca and crushes an average of 780 quintals of wheat per year . In 1917, in response to an investigation into which mills could crush corn, the mayor of Sant 'Andrea d´Orcino wrote to the prefect that there were “no mills in his municipality that could work”. The First World War therefore seems to have put an end to the activity of this mill. For the little story: The bandit Spada Spada's life turned upside down at Sari d'Orcino, one evening in October 1922 when he decided to shoot the gendarmes who had come to arrest his friend Dominique Rutili. He will fatally wound one of them and then take to the bush with his friend. In December 1926, he decided to win the postal service concession using a nominee. He then did not hesitate to attack the van which provided the link between Ajaccio and Lopigna, in Sant'Andrea d´Orcino, seriously injuring the driver and two of the twelve travelers. A repeat offense took place on May 18, 1930. He then again attacked the same postal service whose concession, which had come to an end, had just been the subject of a new adjudication which was beyond the control of the bandit. This time, the driver and two gendarmes who were passengers in the vehicle were killed, a third gendarme seriously injured. The other passengers will flee as the mail van is set on fire. This tragedy will cause the suspension of the Ajaccio-Lopigna postal service for 6 months.
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