Sartène is the second biggest municipality of France by the size (22.000 ha) and the sub-prefecture. Besides, Sartène is an economic pole of the back - country in the agricultural domain.
Vineyards ( AOC), citrus fruits and breedings establish the wealth of the country, the potentialities of which will be soon spread with the irrigation of the plain of Sartenais.
The city is built in amphitheatre over the valley of Rizzanèse.
Here takes place the procession of Catenacciu doubtless one of the most former of the island.
Mérimée said about Sartène that she was " the most Corsican of the Corsican cities ", her ancestral traditions often remind it to us.