Tag: Town in Corfu

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...

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...

With a fleet of over 150 premium sedan taxis, Mercedes Vito VIP people carriers (up to 6 persons) and wheelchair acces-sible taxis, CTTS is available to visitors to take them to any destination safely. It has an office at the Cruise Terminal, and ranks in key locations around the island. CTTS has designed sightseeing routes of one, two or more Read more...

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