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Bastia

Travel Guide Europe France Corsica Bastia

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Introduction

Bastia Harbour at Dusk

Bastia is the second largest city on the island of Corsica, France. It has roughly 45,000 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

Bastia 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 750 mm.

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Getting There

By Plane

Bastia – Poretta Airport (BIA) offers a range of flights to other French cities like Paris and Bordeaux and international flights to London, Berlin, Hamburg and a few others.

By Train

Chemins de fer de Corse travels between Bastia and Ajaccio and also to Calvi.

By Car

By Bus

By Boat

Italy:

SNCM between Bastia (Corsica) and Livorno.
Corsica Ferries between Bastia and Portaferrao (on Elba).
Corsica Ferries between Bastia and Savona and also Bastia and Livorno.

France:
The Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Mediterranée has a number of daily services between Bastia and Marseille, Toulon and/or Nice.

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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
Hotel La Madrague	Route de Pineto	hotel	66
Hotel La Palma	lieu dit lustincone	hotel	76
Hotel Le Lido	Route de la Marana	hotel	-

Budget

Mid-Range

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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