The largest nature reserve in mainland France, the Strait of Bonifacio covers 80,000 hectares between Corsica and Sardinia.
In a landscape of limestone cliffs and granite chaos, the site is home to 37% of the remarkable species of the Mediterranean.
It includes coastal and marine environments as well as exceptional landscapes: the Lavezzi, Cerbicales, Bruzzi, and Moines archipelagos, the cliffs of Bonifacio, the Ventilegne ponds, and more.
These environments house a cosmopolitan flora that combines Alpine and African influences (such as Silene velvety and Jupiter's beard).
The richness of the underwater fauna (Posidonia seagrass beds, giant limpets, great scallop, gorgonian coral, grouper, etc.) and birdlife like the crested cormorant and the Cory's shearwater is equally remarkable.
The high number of visitors to this territory (150,000 people per year in the Lavezzi, 20,000 people across the reserve on some afternoons in August) reflects its tourist appeal.
