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Are you thinking this summer to take your holidays in Corfu, in one of the numerus holiday resorts in this magnificent island?
With unsurpassed natural beauty, one of the most green and fertile islands, with a turbulent and fascinating history, monuments and sights of unique beauty, with unique architecture and style, and one of the most densely populated islands in the Mediterranean with the densest road network, Corfu was the first which opened its doors to tourism development long before the other islands.

Foreign travelers long before the 1900 estimated its beauty and by 1950 have established Corfu as one of their favorite holiday destinations.
There are also many people who have chosen it as a second home and since many years they live permanently on the island.
For Europeans and many other tourists the entrance gate is almost exclusively the newly renovated international airport Ioannis Capodistrias.
The flight from the most big European airports lasts 2 to 3.5 hours.

Located in the westmost part of Greece is a little far away from Athens but what it offers are worth to visit despite the longer distance compared with the Agean islands.
In recent years it has become one of the favorite destinations of Greek tourists too, especially during the Easter season, which has gained nationwide attention with its unique traditions that exist only here, but also in August is filled with Greek visitors.
After construction of the Egnatia highway is easily accessible especially for residents of northern Greece, but also from Athens is just 45 minutes away by plane.
From the port of Igoumenitsa in the mainland, with the new modern and fastest ferries, the time required for someone who will use the ferry to come with a car has been reduced significantly to shorter than an hour, apart from the port of Corfu some ferries also catch up in the southern port of Lefkimi.

In Corfu island, first natural attraction will be the old medieval town of Corfu, the only Greek kastropolis (city surrounded by fortress), maintaining intact its medieval Venetian style with narrow streets (alleys) and tall buildings, a standard old Italian rather than Greek city that has barely changed despite the strong tourism development and the sometimes arbitrary interventions by political factors.
A city with numerous attractions and monuments that someone need days to see and admire.
What can one see first in the city?
The two fortresses, old and new, the about 10 museums, numerous old buildings and great places such as the palace of Michael and George in the top of Esplanade Square, the very vast Esplanade square itself, the famous Liston, the palace at Mon Repos in Kanoni, the Kanoni area with the amazing view, the neoclassical building of the Ionian parliament, the Ionian Academy, the palace at Achillion, to admire without getting dizzy the deep Contra fossa which separates the old fortress from land, the beautiful city itself, decorated with varius statues of many historic personalities such as Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first governor of Greece, statue of Sir Thomas Maitland, the first British High Commissioner of Corfu, statue of Prussian marhal Johann Mathias von Schulenburg, the man responsible for the repulse of the Turkish attack of 1716, the statue of Lord Guilford, British pro-and primarily responsible for establishing the Ionian Academy, all the above inside and around Espianade square.
At the junction of Alexandra Avenue to Avenue of the Republic, there is an obelisk in honor of the English Commissioner of 1835 Sir Howard Douglas, which is called by the locals as the column of Douglas.
Also see the church of patron Saint Spyridon and the Cathedral of Saint Theodora, countless other Italian-style churches, tour the very old town where every building is a gem, to visit Paleopolis which is the Ancient Doric city of Corfu laying on the way to Kanoni ... and much much more...

Also the traditional villages that keep intact the traditional color was a reason for corfu tourist attraction, such as villages are, Spartilas and Strinilas at the Mount of Pantokrator, the old Sinies village, the Lacones above Paleokastritsa, various villages of Gyrou area, The villages of Stavros and Agioi Deka, old Perithia village which has dropped in recent years but can be visited.

Corfu offers everything, beautiful places from picturesque mountain villages that look as if time has stood up, to cosmopolitan tourist resorts with excellent hotels, with intense tourist activity and nightlife, endless sandy beaches, and quieter tourist destinations with an emphasis on beauty environment, emerald shores of beaches, bays adjacent manifold with pebbles and crystal clear waters, and completely isolated beaches, idyllic places for romantics.

The tourist infrastructure is among the finest and largest in Greece with hotels from 2 to 5 star that every wallet can afford plus many more rooms and other accommodations are scattered throughout the island.

Tourist resorts for holidays in Corfu

The huge beaches and tourist resorts with plenty of facilities:
It is almost impossible to enumerate them all, the most important and starting from northwest are: Arillas, Agios Stefanos Avlioton, Peroulades, Sidari with the famous Canal d'`Amour, Roda, Acharavi, all these are beaches and tourist resorts, followed by Kassiopi, Agios Stefanos, Kerasia , Kouloura, Kalami, Agni, Kaminaki, Nissaki, Barbati, all former are quieter destinations with small taverns manifold beautiful bays with very clear water in the northeast part of the island.
Below we have Ipsos, Dasia and Kommeno, all cosmopolitan tourist spots, followed by beach Alykes of Potamos and then south of the City of Corfu, we have Perama, Benitses, Moraitika and Messonghi, all above are beaches and holiday resorts.
Following are the fishing villages of Boukari and Petriti, both with taverns with fresh fish, Alykes beach is only visited by boat from the sea where the waters are deep only at 1 yard at the most for up to 5 miles from the coast.
At the southernmost point is Kavos with nightlife for English teenagers, nightlife the same style as in Laganas in Zante and Malia in Crete, where we recommend you visit only for educational purposes to see how is the tourist development to prevent and we wish you good luck and hope you will not have a lot of damages in your car by kicks and flying bottles as you traverse the region.
West from north to south we have: Agios Georgios Pagon, Paleokastritsa, Ermones Myrtiotissa nudist beach, Glyfada very cosmopolitan and always busy, Pelekas with Kontogyalos known since the first chippys, Gialiskari, Agios Gordis.
following holds beaches without tourism development as, Gardiki, Alonaki, the huge Halikounas the neighboring Issos also huge, and most southern there are more tourist areas such as those of St. George of south, Marathia and Vitalades, very south is the small almost deserted beaches of Kanoula and Arkoudila.
Many of them are awarded with blue flag due to the purity of their waters,
The sandy endless beaches are among the longest in Greece.
On the island there are also two lagoons, the northernmost lake of Antinioti> and southwest the lagoon of Korission, each with its special biodiversity.

But of course there is no end in the catalog of sights and other things you can see during your holidays in Corfu, dont forget opposite the peninsula of Kanoni, the trade mark of Corfu Mouse island with the neighboring island of Vlacherna.
The so called "Observatory of Kaiser" in the top of a hill above Pelekas, a platform formed on the rock, with stunning views, used at the beginning of 20th century by Kaiser Wilhelm to observe around the island.
The Aqualand, a water park for fantastic slides and games for young and older children, in the middle of the island at Agios Ioannis area, covering 12,000 square miles, one of the largest of such parks in Europe.
The most beautiful sunsets in Greece? ofourse in Corfu, in any of the numerous peaks at the western side of the island.
Everywhere in Corfu you are, certainly there is something exciting and interesting to see, we simply can not remember and mention everything in the limited space of one page.

Of course no one who is in Corfu is to miss a visit to the island of Paxos, an island that has been classified as one of the 20 most beautiful islands in the world, where among other things to see and visit are the many and huge sea caves with turquoise waters, far larger and more beautiful than those of the island of Zante.
Also a visit on the northern Diapontia islands, Othoni, Erikousa and Mathraki is a must, a different quiet and fascinating world to discover.

There is also the island of Vido, near and opposite the old port of the city, a small natural paradise with an area of ​​only 540 acres, the island is sacred to Serbs and there is a mausoleum with bones from Serb soldiers of the 2nd World War.
On the island there are many surprises, no roads but only trails organized for walkers, restaurant and bars, sanitation, health center, beach, local camps and the historic restored church of St. Stephanos.
There is a legend that the island communicates with the old fortress through an underwater tunnel, which been built by the Venetians, we do not know if this is true, but the Venetians had this ability since underground tunnels linking the two fortresses of the city really exists, these tunnels are not accessible to the public.
The name of the island is not Vidos as incorrectly reported by many, but "the island of Vido" and took it from a former owner called Guido Malipieri, Guido was simply paraphrased to Vido.

In Corfu there is nightlife for every taste, there is fun purely for young people and young foreign tourists and night life for purely Greek tastes mostly north of the city, bars for those who love good music and all kinds of restaurants for culinary pleasures, at Kaizer bridge for example there is a restaurant in which you take your dinner in a platform inside the sea.
Using a car is not necessary, although it can be very useful as there are so many places around to see and visit.

Whatever your tastes are, your holidays in Corfu certainly will never get boring, Corfu is an island of huge interest and endless natural resources, an island that offers locations, natural beauty and infrastructure that fit to every taste.

But what is Corfu is best to be said by a foreigner, is more objective and makes us more proud of our island:

Εlves landscapes, magical colors, fiery sunsets, romantic moonlight, lush vegetation (lots of green even in midsummer), a revolution of flowers and colors, gardens with old silver olive groves, golden oranges, scented lemons, rich pergolas, calm lagoons, forgotten coves, gurgle springs, exciting caves, virgin beaches, golden sand and clear, turquoise, emerald sea, there is certainly no other island in the world where to fit it all together in the superlative degree.
[1963] John Fort, the British Vice Consul