Calvi is a small town and commune of the Haute-Corse département, in France. It is located on the northwest coast of the island of Corsica. The town began as a fishing port on the site of the present-day ville basse below the citadel, and remained just a cluster of houses and fishing shacks until the Pisans conquered the island in the tenth century. Not until the arrival of the Genoese, however, did the town become a stronghold when, in 1268, Giovaninello de Loreto, a Corsican nobleman, built a huge citadel on the windswept rock overlooking the port and named it Calvi. A fleet commanded by Nelson launched a brutal two-month attack on the town in 1793, when Nelson lost his eye; he left saying he hoped never to see the place again. The town these days has the ambience of a slightly kitsch Côte d'Azur resort, whose glamorous marina, souvenir shops and fussy boutiques jar with the down-to-earth villages of its rural hinterland

	Country:	France
	Location:	Northwest Corsica
	Country Code:	+33
	Population:	4,800
	Language:	French
	Currency:	Euro (€)
	Time Zone:	GMT+1
	Train Station:	Calvi Corse
	Tourism:	Calvi Tourism

By Car Calvi is connected to the rest of Corsica by good a road network. Ajaccio can be reached in 2 1/2 hours

By Train You can reach Clavi Station from l'Ile Rousse, Ajaccio, Bastia and Corte with the SNCF

By Ferry From Calvi ferry port you can sail to Southern France and Italy via Nice, Savona and Marseille ferry ports. With frequent crossings operated by the largest ferry companies in the Western Mediterranean.

• Citadel de Calvi
• La Cathedrale St. Jean-Baptiste
• Oratoire de la Conferie St. Antoine
• Christopher Columbus's birthplace
• The Beach

The Citadel de Calvi is the most popular attraction in Calvi. Over the citadel porch there is a marble plaque with the following inscription “Civicas Calvi Semper Fidelis” a reminder of the loyalty of Calvi to Genoa in the C16th. Below the porch, the old guardrooms have been transformed into reception and exhibition rooms. The exact date of construction of La Cathedrale St. Jean-Baptiste remains a mystery, but took place during the C13th. Originally it was the property of the Genovese monastery, before being raised to cathedral status. It was burned down in 1481, restored and enlarged in 1528, partially destroyed in 1553, then damaged again in 1567. It assumed its present form as we know it in 1570. It houses numerous works of art. The Oratoire de la Conferie St. Antoine was built in 1510, meetings were held here by the confréries de Saint-Antoine et de l'Annonciation and charitable and pious institutions. On Rue de Fil stands the shell of the building that Calvi believes was Christopher Columbus's birthplace, as the plaque on the wall states, but the claim rides on pretty tenuous, circumstantial evidence. The house itself was destroyed by Nelson's troops during the siege of 1794. Calvi's outstanding beach sweeps right round the bay from the end of quai Landry at the foot of the citadel.