The Wines of the Ionian: Corfu and the Greek Island Wine Tradition Corfu is not the destination most people think of first when the conversation turns to Greek wine, and...
Corfu’s August Festivals: Music, Culture and Village Celebrations Anyone who spends August on Corfu quickly notices that the island seems to be celebrating something almost every night. This is panigiri...
Corfu in July: A Practical Guide for First-Time Summer Visitors Arriving in Corfu for the first time in July, the combination of the heat, the beauty, and the sheer variety...
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...