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The Strait of Bonifacio (French: Bouches de Bonifacio; Italian: Bocche di Bonifacio; Corsican: Bucchi di Bunifaziu; Gallurese: Bocchi di Bunifaciu; Sardinian: Buccas de Bonifatziu; Ligurian: Bocche de Bunifazziu; Latin: Fretum Gallicum, Fretum Taphros) is the strait between Corsica and Sardinia, named after the Corsican town Bonifacio.
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.
Port of Ajaccio Looking north across the Strait of Bonifacio from the northern tip of Sardinia; the southern coast of Corsica is barely visible through the haze of distance. Corsica is well connected to the European mainland (Italy and France) by various car ferry lines.
Sardinia. Sardinia (/ s ɑːr ˈ d ɪ n i ə / sar-DIN-ee-ə; Italian: Sardegna [sarˈdeɲɲa]; Sardinian: Sardigna [saɾˈdiɲːa]) [a] [b] is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km [5] south of the ...
Cavallo is the only inhabited island of the Lavezzi archipelago, 2.3 km from the Corsican coast, [2] close to the Strait of Bonifacio.It is about 13 km from Sardinia. The island is French territory, though it belonged to Italy in the past. [3]
The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled AD 117–138), showing the senatorial province of Sardinia and Corsica , two islands in the central Mediterranean Sea The Nuragic civilization flourished in Sardinia from 1800 to 500 BC.
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The main access into and out of the archipelago is via the frequent car ferries from Palau on Sardinia that run into La Maddalena. There are roads only on Maddalena and Caprera. From 1973 until 2008 the Santo Stefano island was a home for the NATO naval base which housed US nuclear submarines.