Cargèse is a Greek town originally, dating the XVII-th century (1676). It is the Greek immigrants avoiding the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire, that established forced by French having been chased away of Poamia.

Today the village extends on the hillsides of a hill dominating the sea.

Inherited from Greek time, the small Greek church of oriental rite is decorated with îcones. The village also possesses its small uniate church. It is rather surprising to see that in Cargèse, the inhabitants kept at the same moment the language and the Greek traditions.

Cargèse, is today the terminus of the hiking trail " Tra Mare e Monti ".