TV-Repo: Là où je t'emmenerai (Ajaccio)

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In honor of Ajaccio's tourist appeal, I have now decided to adopt for my AAm account motto the phrase Life's a beach & then you dive, a variant on the oft-repeated world-weary phrase, Life's a bitch and then you die.

[Un-rêve]

Originally Posted by Corsaire

Not to imply that you are wrong, there, Un-rêve. But...

In French these islands are called “Îles sanguinaires” or “archipel des Sanguinaires”. “Sanguinaires” is basically the equivalent of sanguinary in English. So, the name does seem to be related to the color of blood, but more officially, it is generally thought that it originates from:

- A deformation of the name found on early modern era maps: “Sagonare Insulae”. This would make the most sense, since the archipelago still sits between the Sagone and Ajaccio canyons.

- The color of the porphyry rocks when they are hit by the sunset light.

Yeah you're right on track.. the article I linked below pretty much confirms what you say and here's a small quote from it.


" The name "Sanguinaires" means "bloodthirsty". The origin of the name is very old and means "on the road to Sagone" (Sagonares insulae).

Others say that the name come from the colour of the islands in the sunset, or even the colour of the sea, that has a deep red colour in the sunset because of a red algae. "

http://www.everytrail.com/guide/sang...slands-ajaccio

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Originally Posted by Corsaire

Not to imply that you are wrong, there, Un-rêve. But...

From page 789 of The living age, Volume 184
Littell, Son and Co. (1890)

The voyage from Marseilles to Ajaccio took us seventeen hours. Guide-books and time-tables say twelve, but I believe it has seldom or never been done under sixteen... My first glimpse of Corsica was through the port-hole of my cabin, about 7 A.M... Soon we passed close to Les Iles Sanguinaires, three rocks jutting out in a line from the mainland of the island, towards the south. On the largest of these is a lighthouse, connected by an electric wire with Ajaccio, some seven miles away. On these islands, and, we are told, nowhere else, grow a most curious looking plant. I have heard it called an arum lily, but it has not the slightest resemblance to one... Thirty minutes after passing Les Iles Sanguinaires — I never could get a satisfactory explanation of the name — the steamer dropped her anchor in the outer port of the bay of Ajaccio, about two hundred yards from the quay.

The Corsipedia has a skeleton article about the islands, which are called Isuli Sanguinari in Corsu. The most substantial part of it is a nice snapshot from 2008.

The Webmaster of http://www.alizee-corsicajaccio.com/ has an <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.154215387961319.27221.100001185778794">albu m</a> of photos of the <i>Îles sanguinaires</i>, including the one below: