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Extract from the Macinaggio Travel Guides:
A port since Roman times, well-sheltered
MACINAGGIO
, 20km north of Erbalunga, was developed by the Genoese in 1620 for the export of olive oil and wine to the Italian peninsula. The Corsican independence leader, Pascal Paoli, landed here in 1790 after his exile in England, whereupon he kissed the ground and uttered the words "
O ma patrie, je t'ai quitt esclave, je te retrouve libre
" ("Oh my country, I left you as a slave, I rediscover you a free man") - a plaque commemorating the event adorns the wall above the ship chandlers. There's not much of a historic patina to the place nowadays, but with i...
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