Saint Florent is above all a modern sea resort knowing how to remain a village anchored in its traditions.
The pleasure port, put at feet of the ramparts of the Genoese citadel, counts certainly among the most beautiful of the méditerranean.
Along the colored and picturesque quays, the typical restaurants wait for you for a tasting of the local products.
Situated in the fund of a magnificent bay framed by the mountains of Nebbio and Cap-corse, the city is a passage obliged for all those avid to go around the Island.
A little of history: it is in 1440 when the Genoese built in this place a citadel which lived until XVIII-th century, the seat of the bishop's palace of Nebbio. The city was the theater of numerous tensions during the XVI-th century among French and Corsican Genoese. Finally, after Napoleon had given the order to reclaim swamps, the city knew a revival.