About the city
Calvi is a town in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. it is the chief city of the Canton of Calvi, which contains besides itself one other commune, Lumio. Calvi is also the capital of the Arrondissement of Calvi, which contains, beside the Canton of Calvi, three other cantons: L’Ile-Rousse, Belgodere and Calenzana.
There is a legend that Christopher Columbus was from Calvi, which at the time was part of the Genoese empire. Because the often subversive elements of the island gave its inhabitants a bad reputation, he would have masked his exact heritage. The 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2 REP) of the French Foreign Legion is based in Calvi, housed in its citadel.