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Bonifacio is located directly on the Mediterranean Sea, separated from Sardinia by the Strait of Bonifacio.It is a city placed on the best and only major harbour of the southern coast and also is a commune covering a somewhat larger region including the offshore Isles Lavezzi, giving it the distinction of being the southernmost commune in Metropolitan France.
The King of Aragon's Staircase (French: Escalier du roi d'Aragon; Corsican: Scali di u rè d'Aragona) is a staircase carved into the limestone cliff off Bonifacio on the French island of Corsica. There are 187 steps and the staircase is at a 45-degree incline. [1] The staircase was registered as a Monument historique in 1994 and 2023. [2]
Église Saint-Dominique de Bonifacio. Église Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Bonifacio (Corsican: Ghjesgia Santa Maria Maiò) is a Roman Catholic church in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, southeastern Corsica. The building was classified as a Historic Monument in 1982. [1] It was built in the 12-13th century.
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Lady of Bonifacio. A skeleton of a woman who lived in the Mesolithic is named Lady of Bonifacio. It was found at what is the Avenue Sylvère Bohn, north of Bonifacio, on Corsica. There is a rock shelter there, called Araguina-Sennola, which is classified as Monument historique.
Église Saint-Dominique de Bonifacio is a church in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, southeastern Corsica. It is the largest church on the island. It is the largest church on the island. The church is located within the walls of an old Dominican convent, now defunct, in the western part of the historic center, next to City Hall of Bonifacio.
The most famous disaster in the Strait of Bonifacio was that of the French frigate Sémillante on February 15, 1855. Sémillante had left the port of Toulon the day before on her way into the Black Sea to supply the Crimean War with troops. A storm caused her to hit a reef; the ship sank and none of the 750 soldiers on board survived.
The Bonifacio Monument, which was sculpted by Guillermo Tolentino in 1933, is an obelisk that rises to a height of 13.7 meters (45 ft); the obelisk is made up of five parts representing five aspects of the society, "Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan" (transl. Highest and Most Venerable Association of the Sons of the Nation).