Ideally located half way between Calvi and Ajaccio, Porto's dramatic bay offers an extraordinary coast, and the chance to know the mountains and villages of the inland. Nowhere else in Corsica is the sea so spectacularly close to the mountains. Porto's area offers exceptional natural beauty: in the heart of the regional park maritime protected area, the gulf is one of the UNESCO world's cultural heritage sites. The village of Porto is built around a giant eucalyptus tree forest and one of the geonese towers built to fortify coastal outposts rises over the marina. A sample of the cultural highligts of the area, Ota's genoese bridges, Evisa's chestnut grove, churches in Chidazzu and Marignana, Tassu forsaken village, chapels, genoese towers along the coast, typical red granite villages as Serriera, Curzo, Osani or Partinello.