Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 11 Corsica. Nice. Avignon. An island that doesn’t fully agree is part of France, a city that weaponise light, and a town still haunted by a papacy that packed up and left. Corsica feels like a dare The ferry from the Italian mainland crossed overnight […]
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 33: Avignon For sixty-eight years in the fourteenth century, every major decision in Western Christianity was made in a small French city on the Rhône. The Popes had moved. Almost nobody remembers. Avignon — The City in France That Was the Capital of Christianity
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 32: Nice Nice has been French for one hundred and sixty-six years. Nice was Italian-speaking and Savoyard for four hundred and seventy-two years before that. The most famous avenue in the city is named after the English, who paid for it. Nice did not
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 31: Corsica Napoleon Bonaparte was born on a French island whose first language was Italian, fourteen months after the island had been French at all. Corsica — Sold to the Kingdom of France On the 15th of August 1769, in the small port town
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The ferry from Bastia crossed the Mediterranean night. I stood on the deck until the lights of Corsica became uncertain and then became nothing, and the sea was dark in every direction. Somewhere behind me, the island was still releasing the smell of its hills into the water — myrtle, rosemary, thyme, the dense wild
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 10 Bolzano. Lago di Garda. Sanremo. The part of Italy that makes you question everything you thought Italy was. Bolzano — The Alps I took a train north from Verona and watched Italy dissolve out the window. The vineyards stayed but the language on the
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 30: Sanremo A flower town with a casino. A casino with a singing competition. A singing competition that, by 1956, the entire continent had agreed to copy. Sanremo — Riviera dei Fiori In the late nineteenth century, on a small stretch of the western
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France Route: Corsica (Bastia → Calanques de Piana → Bonifacio) → overnight ferry → Nice (Vieux Nice, Grande Corniche) → Provence (Luberon Valley — Gordes, Roussillon) Total distance: approximately 600 km (driving sections combined, plus ferry crossing) Recommended duration: 7–10 days Best months: June (lavender bloom in Provence), September (warm Corsican waters, thinner crowds) Currency:
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 29: Lago di Garda At the foot of mountains where snow still falls in winter, the same lake grows lemons. Geography this stubborn deserves an explanation. Lago di Garda — A tongue of the Adige Glacier Lago di Garda was carved out of solid
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 28: Bolzano The waiter took my order in German. The receipt was in Italian. The sign on the bakery across the street was in both. None of this is unusual here. Bolzano did not become Italy when Italy arrived. Bolzano: The Italian City That
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