Editing Bastia (section)

===The Genoese era===
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The Genoese soon felt the need to protect Bastia from invasions coming from the sea and began to build a bastiglia (moat) and a citadel in the time of governor Leonello Lomellini.

Over time, the ''Bastiglia'' (Bastia) has grown, become prosperous, and become more important than Cardo.

Its history is in its "bastiglia" or citadel which was originally a walled city. Here it was the sea and the mountains that determined the location of habitations as well as the relief of the island. Bastia was the capital at the time of the Genoese domination. It spread to the slopes later, drawn toward the water in the ''Place Saint-Nicolas''.

Created by the Genoese patrician Leonello Lomellini in 1353 to liaise with Genoa, the city originated on the roack where a tower was built (a ''bastiglia'', hence its name) and, a hundred years later, was surrounded by walls.

At the beginning of the 18th century, many improvements were made in the Punta district, where many shops were built. Bastia and the whole island came under French military domination on 8 May 1769.

In 1794, during a war with [[Revolutionary France]], British troops under [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Admiral Nelson]] and Lieutenant-General [[David Dundas (British Army officer)|David Dundas]] briefly [[Siege of Bastia|captured Bastia]].

In 1848, Bastia took 44 hectares from [[Ville-di-Pietrabugno]].