No one had been able to set foot on this emblematic place of Ajaccio since… 1492. The Miollis citadel, built by the Genoese in the 15th century and owned by the army until July 2019, when it was ceded to the city, opens its doors to the public during the summer period.
For the three summers from 2021 to 2023, an evolving visual show called
Mémoires d'Ajaccio
, transforms these old stones every evening into an “open-air scene of Corsica”.
The first edition which has just opened is dedicated to the celebration of the “bicentenary of the death of Napoleon”.
With three performances per evening, this 45-minute audiovisual show retraces the great hours of Napoleon, born a few hundred meters away.
A building of more than two hectares
On July 4, 2019, Edouard Philippe, then Prime Minister, officially handed over the keys of the old military building to Laurent Marcangeli, mayor of the city, symbolically concretizing the transfer for 1.3 million euros by the Ministry of Defense in Ajaccio of this 2.5 ha building in the heart of the old town.
The Prime Minister then underlined that the development for the revaluation of the site would require time and many works in order to carry out in particular the depollution of the places and the restoration of the ramparts.
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