The Museum of Antivouniotissa is housed in the former church of the Holy Mother of God Antivouniotissa, one of the oldest and richest religious monuments in Corfu, which was build before the end of the 15th century.Its collection includes icons and other works both by well-known and anonymous artists in the Byzantine tradition, but with western influences, representing an output Read more...
Beyond the Windmill (Anemomylos) metal ladders are installed in a concrete jetty for entering the water safely. Swimmers have views of the Old Fortress to the north and the open Ionian Sea to the south. The seafloor is alive with extensive growth of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica, home to dozens of species of fish. Read more...
Faliraki is where Corfiots have traditionally taken their “baths” from old, a place better known among them as “Aleko’s baths”. One must walk from town through the St Nicholas gate (which allowed access to the sea in Venetian times). Swimmers sit on the short quay or lie on recliners provided by the barsnearby. Stone steps lead into the water. Read more...
The Corfu Nautical Club (NAOK) operates in buildings below the sea wall of the Spianada. Its cove has been a favorite swimming spot for generations of Corfiots, with a view of the club’s sailing boats and rowing boats crewed and in training. The club’s café provides changing and showering rooms. Read more...
Built about 1846 on one of the few large squares in the centre of the town, formerly called Sternon Square. An important works by the architect I. Chronis. The building combined the rooms needed for the functioning of the bank on the ground floor with the residence of its director on the two upper storeys. Externally, it has a Classical Read more...
This building, which houses the Corfu Reading Society, one of the earliest cultural foundations in modern Greece (founded in 1836), stands almost directly opposite the High Commissioner’s palace. The original construction of this building, which was a residential mansion, goes back to the Venetian period, but it has been subjected to a series of modifications and additions in the 19th Read more...
The great square of Corfu Town nowadays owes its name to the Venetian word spianata, a large open space. That was the requirement of Venetian defensive policy: a great level field, long as a musket-shot trajectory,in front of the Old Fortress. This space was formed into a square in the short years of French rule. It was then that the Read more...
Residential building complex on the Spianada, which was begun under the French empire and forms the main testimony to the French presence on Corfu. The rhythmical repetition of features on the main facade, especially the elegant arcade, reflects the monumental concept of urban design of the Napoleonic period in straight, identical layouts like that of the Rue des Rivoli. The Read more...
This most picturesque little square in town feels like a theatre scene within the densely built Campiello quarter. The cistern at its centre, bearing sculpted stone decorations, was built in 1699 as a donation by a member of the local nobility. The church of Virgin Mary Kremasti and the open space of the square served as a meeting place for Read more...
