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Ajaccio E-Bike tour in the Footsteps of Napoleon Bonaparte
2 h
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About this activity
From our station located at the Ajaccio Tourist Office, take your e-bike and explore all the main Ajaccio sites in less than 2 hours 30 minutes with our self-guided tour.
Our team teaches you how to use an e-bike and advise you about the best places to go with your electric bike.
Discover the Bonaparte house, where Napoleon Bonaparte was born and grew up, explore the old town and its pastel painted houses along narrow streets, enter into the Cathedral where Napoleon was baptised, visit the the Citadel erected in the 16th century surrounded the St Francois Beach, the Foch square and its market full of local flavors with food and craft products made in Corsica.
Then the tour takes you to the Casone Square where Napoleon Bonaparte used to play when he was child. This square is dominated by the imposing monument of Napoleon I, preceded by two eagles and a huge inclined stele recalling all his victories.
Then leave the Ajaccio city centre to the Sanguinaires islands via the cycle path which skirts the turquoise waters. Have a dive in one of the wonderful beaches !
Classified as a protected natural site, the archipelago of Sanguinaires counts 4 islands inhabited by a very diversified fauna and flora with numerous bird species such as the cormorant, the peregrine falcon, the Sardinian warbler and the gull.
You can explore the Parata tower erected on the top of the peninsula of the same name in the XVI century by the Genoese. This one offers an amazing panoramic view on the archipelago of Sanguinaires. From up there, you can even photograph dolphins if you are lucky !
After that wonderful walk, you can start your way back to Ajaccio city centre.
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Our team teaches you how to use an e-bike and advise you about the best places to go with your electric bike.
Discover the Bonaparte house, where Napoleon Bonaparte was born and grew up, explore the old town and its pastel painted houses along narrow streets, enter into the Cathedral where Napoleon was baptised, visit the the Citadel erected in the 16th century surrounded the St Francois Beach, the Foch square and its market full of local flavors with food and craft products made in Corsica.
Then the tour takes you to the Casone Square where Napoleon Bonaparte used to play when he was child. This square is dominated by the imposing monument of Napoleon I, preceded by two eagles and a huge inclined stele recalling all his victories.
Then leave the Ajaccio city centre to the Sanguinaires islands via the cycle path which skirts the turquoise waters. Have a dive in one of the wonderful beaches !
Classified as a protected natural site, the archipelago of Sanguinaires counts 4 islands inhabited by a very diversified fauna and flora with numerous bird species such as the cormorant, the peregrine falcon, the Sardinian warbler and the gull.
You can explore the Parata tower erected on the top of the peninsula of the same name in the XVI century by the Genoese. This one offers an amazing panoramic view on the archipelago of Sanguinaires. From up there, you can even photograph dolphins if you are lucky !
After that wonderful walk, you can start your way back to Ajaccio city centre.
Included
- Guaranteed to skip the long lines
- Use of bicycle
- Guaranteed to skip the lines
Not included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Infant seats available
- Not wheelchair accessible
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Features
Tourism
90%
Cultural
75%
Adrenaline
25%
Aquatic
20%
Reviews
We were so looking forward to this experience and especially riding along the coast to the Sanguinaires islands, which we booked and paid for in advance as advised online, to avoid lines and get quickly on our way. However we were hugely disappointed with the lack of organisation, problems and mis-description of the experience which made it impossible to reach the islands in the time available for which the bikes were hired. The first problem was that we were not met at the clearly specified meeting point (the tourist office) in town, a short walk from the cruise terminal. No one was there and no information was available or signed. When we called the number given on the booking, we were told it was not possible to use the tourist office as the rendezvous point, due to construction works in the area, and that we had to come to the actual bike hire shop instead. No taxis were available and this was at least a 20 minute walk along a busy road in the opposite direction from the tour route. And when we finally got there, we were also told there was no option of returning the bikes anywhere but back at the hire shop, not the tourist office. The bikes themselves were great to ride, but we had to go back into town to pick up the route, and encountered a lot of difficulty in the traffic-choked streets and although the coastal scenery was lovely, the promised idyllic cycle paths along it were non-existent. We had to ride either on the busy roads or on the partly available paths and pavements shared with many pedestrians. We had to give up long before completing the route to the islands in order to be back at the hire shop on time (2 hours' hire). With the roads and paths the way we found them, it is hard to imagine how anyone could complete the self-guided tour in 2 or 2.5 hours, unless they went at maximum speed down the main roads without stopping at any of the points of interest! Which, as first time visitors and on e:bikes, was not our plan. The people in the bike shop did at least kindly drive us back to near the original meeting point, so that we didn't have to do the long walk back again.