The nature reserve, which is part of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica, occupies the Scandola peninsula, an impressive, porphyritic rock mass. The vegetation is an outstanding example of scrubland.
It was the pope’s 47th apostolic journey and his third to France or its regions, after those to Strasbourg in 2014 and Marseille in 2023. Despite the short duration of the trip – the first by a pope ...