Music in Corfu is not background. It is not the ambient sound of a restaurant or the incidental accompaniment to a street festival. It is a serious, deliberate, culturally central...
Corfu Town has two fortresses, and most visitors spend most of their time at the wrong one. The Old Fortress, dramatic on its rocky promontory above the Spianada, is the...
There is a particular kind of place that only a certain combination of wealth, melancholy, and obsessive personality can produce. The Achilleion Palace on the hills above Gastouri, looking south...
Kardaki and Corfu’s Royal Connections: A Hidden Corner of the Island The Kanoni peninsula, with its famous view of Vlacherna and Pontikonisi, draws visitors from across the world to its...
Kanoni and Pontikonisi: Corfu’s Most Iconic Landscape There are views in Greece that have been photographed so many times, reproduced on so many postcards and travel websites and social media...
Exploring Corfu’s Old Town on Foot: A UNESCO Walking Tour There are cities whose history is best understood through books, and cities whose history is best understood by walking. Corfu...
Corfu’s Traditional Easter Foods: Lamb, Tsoureki and Holy Week Flavors Greek Easter is, above all things, a feast. The forty days of Lent that precede it, observed with varying degrees...
The Liston Promenade: Corfu Town’s Most Elegant Gathering Place In the centre of Corfu Town, facing the great green expanse of the Spianada and the distant stone walls of the...
Traditional Lacemaking: Corfu’s Disappearing Textile Heritage In dim village homes, elderly women’s fingers move with practiced precision creating delicate lace patterns their grandmothers taught them decades ago. These artisans, often...
Corfu’s Shepherd Dogs: Working Animals and Mountain Guardians Across Corfu’s mountainous interior, large powerful dogs guard flocks of sheep and goats, their presence continuing traditions spanning millennia. These working animals,...