Gulf of Porto
Gulf of Porto is on the western coast of Corsica, between Piana and Girolata. The village lies at the mouth of the Porto river, within the Gulf of Porto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Gulf
- Description: bay in Corsica, France
- Also known as: “Porto”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Calanques de Piana and Torra di Portu.
Calanques de Piana
Reef
Photo: Markus Schweiss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Calanques de Piana are Corsican calanques located in Piana, between Ajaccio and Calvi, in the Gulf of Porto. It is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes other sites in the Gulf of Porto, due to its beauty, rich marine biodiversity, and unique maquis shrubland.
Torra di Portu
Tower
Photo: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tower of Portu is a ruined Genoese tower located in the commune of Ota on the west coast of the Corsica. The tower sits on a rocky outcrop at a height of 45 metres in the Gulf of Porto.
Gulf of Porto
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Corsica, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Gulf of Porto” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Portoko golkoa”
- Catalan: “Golf de Porto”
- Cebuano: “Golfe de Porto”
- Chinese: “波尔托湾”
- Danish: “Portobugten”
- Dutch: “Golf van Porto”
- Dutch: “Golfe de Porto”
- Finnish: “Portonlahti”
- French: “golfe de Porto”
- French: “Golfe de Porto”
- French: “Golfe de Portu”
- Galician: “Golfo de Porto”
- German: “Golf von Porto”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ פורטו”
- Italian: “Golfo di Porto”
- Japanese: “ポルト湾”
- Lithuanian: “Porto įlanka”
- Maltese: “Golf ta‘ Porto”
- Maltese: “Golf ta’ Porto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Golfe de Porto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portobukten”
- Norwegian: “Portobukten”
- Portuguese: “Golfo de Porto”
- Slovenian: “Portski zaliv”
- Spanish: “Golfo de Porto”
- Turkish: “Porto Körfezi”
- Ukrainian: “Порто (бухта)”
- Ukrainian: “Порто”
- Venetian: “Golfo de Porto”
Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gulf of Porto”. Photo: Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0.