Tag: Town in Corfu

Corfu’s first Bochotis patisserie opened in 2002. The shop exploded with popularity very quickly and six years later we expanded our business in the center of Corfu town. Sixteen years after our first opening we still offer the best quality and service to our customers and we are still present in their happiest special occasions. Read more...

n the centre of Corfu Old Town, you can find the historic pastry shop Papagiorgis, being a reference point for the entire island. Its history begins in 1924; it is continuously open ever since, while it is handed down from generation to generation. Today, the Dafnis’ family 3rd generation continues the tradition and work from the previous ones. The pastry Read more...

Founders and friends, Vangelis and Sokratis, have created Limoncello after having worked for several years in various fields and decided to embark their own adventure. Being cosmopolitan and obsessed about pasta and pizza they thought that their home Island Corfu, needed an authentic Italian trattoria providing the real Italian food culture and the highest quality in a beautiful set up. Read more...

Are you hungry for magic? Don’t be late, the most tasteful journey is waiting for you at Hans & Gretel. The famous Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale “comes alive” at the center of the old town in Corfu. The magical candy store Hans & Gretel will pleasantly surprise you with its fabulous decoration as well as with its amazing sweets: Candies, Read more...

Monastery of Vlacherna dates from the 1600s. Small boats sail from the quay to the Pontikonisi islet with its picturesque Chapel of Pantocrator, built in the 1200s and one of the oldest Byzantine monuments on the island. Read more...

In the Mon Repos Estate there is a protected cove with a stone jetty locals call “the Queen’s bridge”. The old spring,the long-abandoned guard-post, and the grey herons (genus Ardea cinerea) that make their nests in the taller tree branches make for a unique landscape. From here south to Messonghi the sea is zoned and protected as part of the Read more...

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...