Notre-Dame de la Serra

A small 19th-century chapel set high on the rocky ridge above Calvi, reached by a winding road of about four kilometres or a steeper walking path. The views are the point: the whole sweep of the Bay of Calvi, the long beach, the citadel from above, and on a clear day the snow-streaked peaks of the Cinto massif.

Best at sunset. The chapel is usually closed but the terrace is open, and on Pentecost Monday there's a pilgrimage from town up to the chapel for a Mass.

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A story
Sailors approaching Calvi from the west took the pyramidal shape of la Serra as their landfall and offered prayers of thanks at this small chapel once safely ashore. A Madonna kept here is said to have miraculously appeared on the rock; the original was stolen in the 1980s and replaced with a copy.