Very elegant well-head with relief decoration. Presented to the Community by Antonios Kokkinis, it stands at the centre of one of the most beautiful squares in the old town, in front of the church of the Kremasti at Campiello Read more...
Built by the Corfiot architect I. Chronis. Its neoclassical style facade with the Tuscan-Doric porch recalls the facades of the wings of the Commissioner’s Palace. The unification of the Ionian Islands with Greece was decided by vote in this building. After unification, the building was donated to the British community and turned into an Anglican Church. It suffered major damage Read more...
Small circular monument (rotunda) on the Spianada, in the type of a circular monopteral Ionic temple, built in honour of the first High Commissioner of Corfu, Sir Thomas Maitland. It was the work of the British military engineer G. Whitmore, executed in Maltese stone, with sculptural decoration by the Corfiot sculptor Prosalendis. Built above a cistern of Venetian date, it Read more...
It was built about 1832 on the site of an earlier mansion owned by the family, in which the first prime minister of the modern Greek state, Ioannis Kapodistrias, was born. The building later came into the possession of the Septinsular Republic and was used as the residence of the President of the Senate. After the unification of the Ionian Read more...
The wealth and variety of cultures of the people who have lived and still live on this island have left in Corfu Town the imprints of its past and present inhabitants. The Synagogue in the old Jewish Quarter (the Evraiki), bombed by German incendiaries in the Second World War. The older of the two existing. Greek (vecchia), reconstructed after the Read more...
The wealth and variety of cultures of the people who have lived and still live on this island have left in Corfu Town the imprints of its past and present inhabitants. The Anglican Church in the Porta Remunda housed in a secular 19th c. building. Read more...
One of the largest churches of Corfu. Anglican church for English soldiers. Built based on the plans of Antony Emmet (engineer of the royal army). Three-aisled basilica, divided by a double row of cast iron pillars which supported a loft extending along the three sides of the building in the shape of the Greek letter Π. The initial interior structure Read more...
The Catholic Cathedral, better known to locals as the Duomo, is dedicated to Saints Giacomo and Cristoforo. It was built in the 1400s on the Town Hall Square, and dedicated as a cathedral in 1633. It has not ceased since then to provide spiritual aid to Corfiot Catholics, and any Catholic visitors to the island. In 1658 the church was Read more...
Catholic monastery, with a large land property. Inaugurated in 1394. Three-aisled timber-roofed basilica with gothic arches. The tower-like belfry, altered by later lean-tos at its base, and a small part of the facade with relief carvings survived the bombardments of 1943 Read more...
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