Corfu stands apart from almost every other part of what is now Greece in one historically significant and culturally defining respect: it was never conquered by the Ottoman Empire. While...
Of all the civilisations and powers that have governed Corfu through its three thousand years of recorded history, none has left a more complete, more lasting, or more visually dramatic...
The period between the effective end of Byzantine rule in Corfu and the island’s voluntary submission to Venetian protection in 1386 is among the least studied and least understood chapters...
The Byzantine period of Corfiot history, spanning roughly from the fourth century AD to the thirteenth, represents one of the longest and in many respects most formative chapters in the...
The ancient city of Corcyra was one of the most significant Greek colonial foundations in the western Mediterranean, established by settlers from Corinth around 734 BC and developed over the...
The claim in the title of this article is a strong one, and it deserves the direct and honest substantiation that a strong claim requires. Corfu in October is better...
The olive trees that surround Kapella Apartments are in October doing something that the casual observer of the summer months might not immediately distinguish from what they have been doing...
Every place has its story, and some places have stories more dramatic and more instructive than others about the forces that the tourist economy exerts on the communities it reaches....
There is a category of place that travel writing consistently underserves: the place that is excellent not because of a single dramatic feature or a celebrated attraction but because of...
The road from Paleokastritsa climbs steeply from the coastal settlement, switchbacking up the limestone ridge that separates the bay from the agricultural interior of the island’s northwest, and at each...