History of Piana...

 In the 15th century, the actual territory of the Piana township formed the "Pieve de Salogna", placed under the authority of the lords of Leca, who ruled from the south of Calvi down to the north of Propriano.
The "pieve de Salogna" was composed of eight hamlets (Li Mulinacchi, Li Monti Rossi, Rionda, San Marcellu, Lo Campo, San Giustu, Vistale and La Piana) spacing out from the beach up to Piana.
The pievan church was in San Marcellu (4 km in the south of Piana, near the road leading to Ajaccio). The lords of Leca, according to Maurice Barrès, were "magnificent of boldness and ferocity". They revolted against the genovese dominion but they were defeated and all slaughtered. The taking of Jean Paul de Leca's castle on March the 29th of 1489, appears to be one of the last episode of this struggle. The castle stood 4 km east of the village, on the "spija dei conti" (counts crest) right under the "Monte Vittulu".

The Slaughter...

 The genovese slaughtered all the defenders except women and children. In order to cut off the strong links that existed between the inhabitants and the lords of Leca, the genovese authority destroyed the castle and the hamlets of pieve and deported the entire population with threat of death in case they returned. So, during two centuries from 1489 to 1690, the whole region was desertified, if we except some rare cultures allowed to the highlanders.

Towers and  Pirates

 In the 16th century, the genovese built the famous genovese towers to protect themselves against the pirates raids (almost 200 towers, on the shore of the island, including one in Turghio). This network, using fires to communicate, allowed alerting the entire island within less than two hours.
From 1690, probably because the weakening power of Genoa could not oppose it, begun the reconstruction of the village of Piana.

The Chapel

A former chapel, overlooking the hamlet (now under the prairie located 50 m over the presbytery) become the local church, devoted to St Paul & St Peter.  The village become a parish in 1713 and was given a "podestat", a milice chief and a priest. In 1765, the inhabitants decided to built a great church with a public fund. That was achieved in 1792 (Population 736 souls) and the church was open to the cult in 1795. Even today, this church remains a typical corsican one.