Villanova (Corse-du-Sud) — Wikipedia

Villanova is a French commune located in the departmental district of Corsica-du-Sud and the territory of the Corsican community.

Vantanova Est Entrance to the high prunes of the alactries and Ajaccio. Très Arns of Center-Ville De Dinning, The Comments to shoulder “a banliee” D’amaz. Cefel Security in Village De Villanova and the Villacu, San Fedeafish street (Poggio to Lavio) are the costs of Villanova and Capo d’Feno Mery Plus beauties plates du pays Ajaccien. The commune east, Baigné by Le Prunelli.

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Villanova is a rural commune, because it is one of the municipalities that are not very little dense, in the sense of the municipal gate of density of INSEE ^{[ Note 1 ] , [ first ] , [ 2 ] , [ 3 ]} .

In addition, the town is part of the Ajaccio attraction area, of which it is a town of the Crown ^{[ Note 2 ]} . This area, which brings together 79 municipalities, is categorized in the areas of 50,000 to less than 200,000 inhabitants ^{[ 4 ] , [ 5 ]} .

The town, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, is also a coastal commune within the meaning of the law of January 3, 1986 , called coastal law ^{[ 6 ]} . Specific town planning provisions are applied there to preserve natural spaces, sites, landscapes and ecological balance of the coast, such as the principle of unconsciousness, apart from urbanized spaces, on the band coast of 100 meters, or more if the local town planning plan provides ^{[ 7 ] , [ 8 ]} .

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Map of the soil occupation of the town in 2018 (CLC).

The occupation of the soils of the town, as it emerges from the European database of Biophysical occupation of the Corine Land Cover (CLC) soils, is marked by the importance of forests and semi-natural environments (87,1 % in 2018), a proportion identical to that of 1990 (87.4%). The detailed distribution in 2018 is as follows:
Forests (57.1%), media with shrub and/or herbaceous vegetation (27.3%), meadows (6.7%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (4.3%), open spaces, without or with little vegetation (2.7%), urbanized areas (1.8%) ^{[ 9 ]} .

The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of the soil occupation of the municipality (or territories to different scales). Several eras are accessible in the form of aerial cards or photos: the Cassini card ( XVIII ^{It is} century), the staff map (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to today) ^{[ ten ]} .

In Corsica, the town is called Beddanova .

Villanova has existed since the highest antiquity and undoubtedly prehistory since there are a number of “Taffoni” (rock shelters). The Celtibers, the Carthaginians and the Romans stayed there. At XIV ^{It is} A century, according to a legend, under the leadership of the widow of a lord of Lisa, named Bianca Maria, the refugees of Lisa founded Villa-Nova around a source, in Murgana, the current fountain of the village. Villa-Nova began to appear on Corsican cards from 1506. The village is hard struck by the Saragian incursions that persist and Villanova and its hamlets are undoubtedly destroyed on several occasions. Until 1864, Villanova and its hamlets were attached to the municipalities of Ajaccio and Alata. In 1864, they became a town in its own right.

In 1942, the village was occupied by Italians, present in Villanova, Capu Di Fenu and Lava. A resistance network develops. The Casabianca submarine will tackle clandestinely on the shores of Villanova.

In recent years, the village has developed and has been offering quality tourism in the heart of an exceptional nature combining sea and mountain.
In 1862, Alata ceded part of its territory, jointly with Ajaccio, to form the new town of Villanova ^{[ 11 ]} .

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The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses carried out in the municipality since 1866. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual information collection, successively concerning all the municipal territories during a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey relating to the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation ^{[ 13 ]} . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2005 ^{[ 14 ]} .

In 2020, the town had 403 inhabitants ^{[ Note 3 ]} , increased by 13.52%compared to 2014 (Corse-du-Sud: +6.04%, France excluding Mayotte: +13%).

Histogram of demographic evolution

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