All Archaeological in Corfu

The foundations of the temple have survived (590-580 BC) with part of the retaining wall of the shrine and the ancient altar. The famed archaic gorgon pediment on display in the Archaeological Museum of Corfu comes from this temple and is the oldest stone pediment identified to date in Greece. Read more...

Agii Theodori Monastery (between 5th – 6th century) : An early Christian monument directly adjoining the ruins of the temple of Artemis Gorgous. A three-aisled basilica was limited during Byzantine times to the central aisle, which is today the catholicon of a convent. A characteristic feature of the early Christian phase is the semicircular apse with a graduated roof and Read more...

Part of a Doric temple dated 510 BC known as the temple of Kardaki. It is the best preserved Corfiot monument, a characteristic example of early Corinthian architecture and that of Magna Grecia. Read more...

This is the most important early Christian monument. A five- or three-aisled basilica built on the ruins of the Roman agora with a protruding transept, a semicircular apse, two narthexes and an annex. It was limited during the Byzantine period to the central aisle. Interventions were carried out during the 16th and 17th centuries. The great age of the monument Read more...

The Mon Repos estate is a rare botanical garden that exhibits some 2,000 species of plant from parts of the nineteenth-century British Empire. It includes the Mon Repos mansion, an architecturally interesting building in neoclassical form, constructed on the orders of Lord High Commissioner Sir Frederick Adam. It was initially utilized as the summer residence for the Lord High Commissioner, Read more...

The Heraion (Temple of Hera) and surrounding area and in particular the temple dating from 400 BC that was destroyed in the 1st century AD. The foundations of this temple were built on top of part of the foundations of an archaic temple (600 BC) whose exact layout and dimensions have not been confirmed. Only the bed of the foundations Read more...

Dating roughly from the year 1000, this is one of the oldest surviving monuments of the middle Byzantine period on the island, and the only one built in the cross-shaped, inscribed, domed style. The church is dedicated to Jason and Sosipater, two disciples of St Paul who introduced the Christian faith to Corfu. Their graves, with pieces of their Holy Read more...