[Sartène to Corté by Vivario,]
up the centre of the island. [Maps, pp. 1] and [27].
This grand mountain road, No. 196 bis, extends from Sartène, 73 m. N. to the Ajaccio and Corté road, which it joins at the 60 kilometres-stone, on the Col Serra, ½ mile from Vivario. All the diligences between Ajaccio and Corté halt at the inn of Vivario ([p. 8]).
After leaving Sartène the road crosses the Fiumicicoli and ascends the valley of the Rizzanese to Loreto, 12 m., and [Cargiaca] 15 m. N. from Sartène 1302 ft.; grand view. Near Loreto is S. Lucia di Tallano, 1270 ft., with a quarry of a beautiful [amphibole], a variety of hornblende. The ground colour is grayish blue sprinkled with white and margined with black spots (see [p. 37]).
From Cargiaca the road enters the valley of the Coscione and ascends through the [ilex forest of Taca] amidst towering mountains and vertical cliffs by [the villages of Zerubia and Aullene], 2736 ft., pop. 1100; inn; 21 m. N. from Sartène. It now crosses the Coscione, 3492 ft., then the Col Vaccia, 3898 ft., and descends by the Col d’Alisandri, 3426 ft., to Zicavo, 2445 ft., with an inn, 17 m. from Aullene, 3½ m. E. from the baths of Guitera, 38 m. N. from Sartène and 37 m. S. from Vivario.
From the Bocca Tinzole a road ramifies N.W. to [Olivese] 1460 ft., pop. 700, in the valley of the Taravo, 7 m. from Guitera by a beautiful road.
From Zicavo the road crosses the Col San Francesco, 1969 ft., to [Cozzano], 40 m., pop. 900, and enters the valley of the Taravo, which it ascends by the east bank between two great mountain chains, the culminating point of the western chain being [Mt. Don Giovanni] 6405 ft., and that of the eastern [Pointe Capella] 6706 ft.