Achilleion (Greek: Αχίλλειο or Αχίλλειον) is a palace built in Corfu by Empress (German: Kaiserin) of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi after a suggestion by Austrian Consul Alexander von Watzberg.Sissi was a woman obsessed with beauty and very powerful but tragically vulnerable since the loss of her only son, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in the Mayerling affair in 1889. A year later in 1890 she built a summer palace in the region of Gastouri (Γαστούρι), now...

Spianada
Spianada, the biggest, most lively and impressive square of Greece is the result of military fortification of the city by the Venetians, in the 17th and 18th century. The Venetians opened up “Spianata” as additional defensive protection, in front of the Old Fortress. Spianada, stretching as long as 1/3 of the settlement that existed at that time, was opened opposite...

Peristyle of maitland
Peristyle of Maitlant, in the southern tip of Spianada is a simple, circular, ionic monument that was erected to honor the first English Commissioner Thomas Maitland (1816 - 1824). General and the Head of British forces of the Mediterranean, Maitland was the most difficult English Commissioner...

City Hall / San Giacomo Theatre
City Hall

Ionian Academy
The Ionian Academy was the first academic institution established in modern Greece and it is located in Corfu. It was established by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford in 1824.[1] It is also considered the precursor of the Ionian University. It had Philological...

Old Town
The ancient city covers a big part of the peninsula, which extends between the suburb of the windmill and the suburb of Kanoni which had two harbours...

Ionian Parliament
The Ionian Parliament is found on Moustoxidi street, former Plati Kantouni street. From 1817 until 1823 the members of the Parliament of Eptanisos...

Mon Repos
Today’s name Mon-Repo is a large area, where the summer villa of the English Commissioner Thomas Maitland, and his Greek spouse, Corfiot Nina Palatianou was built, in 1828-1831.