Rock castles, labyrinths, hollow blocks, wobbly stones and Tafoni rocks, as this is part of the impressive landscape of the island of Corsica.
In the granite mountains of western Corsica, the effects of the weather have formed bizarre rock formations and formed extraordinary landscapes. You can find rock castles, labyrinths, hollow blocks, wobbly stones and Tafoni rocks everywhere.
Rock castles are often seen at altitudes of over 1000m. They were mainly formed by internal weathering of the rock. This is also how the wobbly stones were created. These large boulders place their weight of many tons on a few square centimeters of undersurface.
The block seas with their huge accumulations of boulders are also extraordinary. They were created by runoff water that washed out the blocks. A most typical feature of Corsica are the Tafoni rocks (granite blocks) with their spherical or elliptical hollows. The Calanche on the Gulf of Porto shows probably the most extraordinary example of the forces that have been at work here in the history of its origin.
Like a labyrinth, the rock peaks rise up to 500 meters high. The peculiar shapes of the yellow-red granite and the bizarre Tafoni caves were created by erosion processes. Penetrating water formed cracks here and triggered chemical erosion processes, so that the cavities collapsed again and again. This is how the Tafoni were created, whose impressive shapes are reminiscent of mythical creatures from another world.
