PERIOD

Post-Byzantine

Old Town of Corfu

This is the only great Greek city that preserves almost the entire historical urban grid, with buildings from the 17th to the 19th century, which highlight the distinctive historical context that shaped it. Corfu is considered one of the most beautiful fortified port cities of the Mediterranean, with a strong element of Venetian architecture, but also French and English influences.

Date of entry into UNESCO's List of World Heritage Sites
2007

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Church of Panagia Spillaiotissa.

The Gate of the Cave, the entrance to the Fortress.

Old and New Fortress.

Theatre San Giacomo, former Loggia dei nobili ( aristocratic club).

Venetian well at Campiello.

The neoclassical palace Mon Repo, 19th c. Residence of the English governors and later the sommer residence of King Georgios I, now housese the Museum of Palaiopoli.

Mosaic floor at the Roman Baths of Palaiololis, Corfu.

Barracks on the fortress of the Old Town of Corfu.

Antefix of a roof with Gorgoneion. Temple of Hera, 580 BC. Museum of Palaiopoli.

The coastline of the Town from above.

The great open square Spianada.

The densely built Old Town of Corfu.

"Volto" at a "cantouni", passage with arched roof between houses.

The historic mansion of the Kapodistria family later housed the Prefecture and nowadays the Ionian University.

Narrow alley "cantouni".

Byzantine church of Iason and Sosipatros.

Statue of dying Achilles at Achilleion, the sommer palace of the empress Elisabath of Austria at Gastouri Corfu (1890-1892).

San Giacomo square and the cathedral church of the Catholics St. Giacomo and St. Christoforo.

St. Sergios, St. Vakchos and St. Justina, portable icon, work of the cretan painter Michael Damaskinos. 17th c. Byzantine Museum of Antivouniotissa.

Aerial view of the Old Town of Corfu.

The old residence of the latin archbishop (old courts): destroyed gy bombing during World War II, restored later and housed the Bank of Greece.

Elaborate woodcarved gilted iconostasis in rococo style. Church of Kira Faneromeni or Panagia ton Xenon. 17th and 18th c.

The Liston Quarter at Spaniada with obvious influence from the french architecture.

Maitland Peristyle at Spianada, 19th c.

Venetian blazon with the Lion of St. Mark. The winged lion was the emblem of the Republic of Venice and is preserved in many sites, on the fortress walls and in the old town of Corfu.

Church of Kira Faneromeni or Panagia ton Xenon (Virgin Mary of the Foreigners). A three-aisled basilica for the religious needs of refugees from Epirus, 1689.Turret spire added in 1752.

Religious painting at the "ourania", the flat roof of a basilica at the Ionian Islands. Chuch of St. Spyridon, 18th c. Old Town of Corfu.

The multi-storeyed buildings at the Old Town of Corfu.

Ionios Academy. Nowadays the Ionian University is housed there.

Statue of governor Frederick Adam by P. Prosalentis (1837). Old palace of Corfu (nowadays the Museum of Asian Art).

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