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Ajaccio

Travel Guide Europe France Corsica Ajaccio

Introduction

Corsica - Ajaccio Boat

Ajaccio is the capital and largest city on the French island of Corsica. The city is located in the central west of the island and has about 65,000 inhabitants, though the larger urban area has over 100,000 inhabitants.

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Neighbourhoods

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Sights and Activities

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Events and Festivals

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Weather

Ajaccio has a Mediterranean climate with temperatures during the dry and warm summer (June-August) around 27-30 °C and averages lows around or just below 20 °C. Winters from December to February are mostly around 15 °C and nights around 5-7 °C. Most of the precipitation falls from October to March and the average annual amount is about 650 mm.

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Getting There

By Plane

Ajaccio – Campo dell'Oro Airport (AJA) mainly has flights to other French cities including Paris, Lyon, Lille, Marseille and Bordeaux. International connections include Amsterdam, London and Geneva. Some flights are seasonal (April to October).

By Train

Chemins de fer de Corse travels between Ajaccio and both Bastia and Calvi.

By Car

By Bus

By Boat

SNCM has ferries between both Ajaccio Porto Torres on Sardinia and to several mainland cities like Toulon, Nice and/or Marseille.

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Getting Around

By Car

By Public Transport

By Foot

By Bike

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Eat

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Drink

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Sleep

Property	Address	Type	Popularity
Chez Mc Donald	Poggio 20173 Zevaco	GUESTHOUSE	64
Hotel Celine	Portigliolo COTI-CHIAVARI	Hotel	66
Palazzu U Domu	17 Rue Bonaparte	hotel	83

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Upscale

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Work

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Learn

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Keep Connected

Internet

Phone

Post

La Poste in France is also referred to as the PTT (short for postes, télégraphes et téléphones). The mailboxes are painted bright yellow and often there is a slot for local city mail and another slot for "outside mail". Normally there is a queue in the post office, but most of the post offices have the self service machine installed which is quite easy to operate. Nowadays many of the tabac and even some of the souvenir shops also sell postage stamps. Normally an overseas postcard costs almost as much as sending a letter.
Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 7:00pm Monday through Friday, and 8:00am to noon on Saturdays. Apart from the basic job of mailing letters, most of the post offices do some banking activities also and some even have photocopy machines and cyber cafes for internet access.

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