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Corfu Island
The beautiful island of Corfu, the island of cantadas (traditional Ionian Island love songs) offers a unique atmosphere and style that steels the heart of all its visitors. According to Greek mythology, the island got its name from the daughter of the river god Asopos, Nymph Korkyra, who was carried away by Poseidon.
In Homer's Odyssey we read that Odysseus found shelter here in Corfu at the end of his wanderings and received the care of King Alkinoos and his people Pheaces and his daughter Nafsika.
Corfu lies off the coast of Epirus North of Paxoi Island in between Greece and Italy. It is 58 km long and about 27 km wide and its highest peak is “Pandokratoras” (906 m high).
Its geographical position attracted powers in the past, from east & west. Through ancient history it was under the rule of the city-states of Athens & Corinth and later it was ruled by the Goths, Lombards, Saracens & Normans and was fought over from the kings of Sicily and the Italian city-states of Genoa & Venice.
Corfu has played an important role in the cultural and educational development of modern Greece. In 1815 the first Fine Arts School and first University of Greece was founded on the island by Lord Guilford with the support of Ioannis Kapodistrias who was born in Corfu to become later the first Prime Minister of the newly liberated Greece.
The island is well watered and very fertile full of Olive and citrus trees, grapes and corn. That’s why, Corfu is considered as having one of the most attractive countryside of all the Greek Islands. Corfu main resorts and beaches are the Capital Town of Kerkira, Mon Repo , (a famous resort very close to the town),Benitses, Palaiokastritsa, Kanoni, Gastouri,Lefkimi, Kassiopi, Roda & Sidari, Messogi.
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