Aghione

Aghione
Commune
The road into Aghione
Location of Aghione
Aghione Aghione
Coordinates: 42°06′45″N 9°24′05″E
Country	France
Region	Corsica
Department	Haute-Corse
Arrondissement	Corte
Canton	Ghisonaccia
Intercommunality	Oriente
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	André Casanova
Area 1	33.88 km2 (13.08 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	233
• Density	6.9/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	2B002 /20270
Elevation	17–459 m (56–1,506 ft) (avg. 66 m or 217 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Aghione (Corsican: Aghjone) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography

Aghion is located on the eastern plains of Corsica 5 km west of Aleria. It can be accessed by the D343 road which comes from the National Highway N198 in the south east and passes west through the southern plain of the commune to Maison Pierraggi in the west and continues on to Vezzani in the Tagnone Valley 25 kilometres (16 mi) away. From the D343 the D443 branches north at the hamlet of Samuleto and continues to the village before continuing north by a tortuous mountain route to Casevecchie.

The commune is watered by the Tagnone, a tributary of Tavignano that separates an area of hills to the north from the plain, which is larger in area, to the south. There is a large dam with a large lake in the south of the commune.

History

During the Second World War Aghione aerodrome was used by the 306th Fighter Wing of the 15th US Air Force from 10–21 August 1944 to support Operation Dragoon (the Invasion of Southern France).

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors of Aghione

From	To	Name	Party
2001	2008	Jean Bladovini	DVD
2008	2026	André Casanova	DVD

Population

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aghionais or Aghionaises in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1866 287 —     1872 305 +1.02% 1876 238 −6.01% 1881 428 +12.45% 1886 273 −8.60% 1891 306 +2.31% 1896 349 +2.66% 1901 404 +2.97% 1906 305 −5.47% 1911 305 +0.00% 1921 213 −3.53% 1926 204 −0.86% 1931 187 −1.73%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1936 176 −1.21% 1946 185 +0.50% 1954 100 −7.40% 1962 87 −1.73% 1968 93 +1.12% 1975 279 +16.99% 1982 317 +1.84% 1990 282 −1.45% 1999 245 −1.55% 2007 234 −0.57% 2012 230 −0.34% 2017 241 +0.94%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Aghione Landscape

A street in Aghione

Economy

The commune of Aghione is predominantly agricultural. The hills are used for grazing goats, sheep, and pigs; while the plain is planted with vines and fruit trees (kiwifruit, Mandarins). There is no farm of significant size located in the commune. In particular the grapes are collected by neighbouring wineries - mainly by the Aleria cooperative.

There are no longer any trades or services in the commune. The people find everything necessary at Aleria (10 km away) or Ghisonaccia (20 km away).

The commune has no access to the sea yet is close by (Alzitone is 5 kilometres from the coast). Aghione has no tourist facilities and does not have any second homes.

Sites and Monuments

The abandoned Sulphurous water source at Puzzichello

Aghione Church

• The Sulphurous water source of Puzzichello (site now abandoned)
• Alzitone Reservoir (artificial lake)
• An old railway line on the eastern plain

See also

• Communes of the Haute-Corse department

External links

• Official website of Aghione Archived 28 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
• Aghione on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)