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Issos Beach 5
This beautiful
sandy beach is right on
the shores of the lagoon
(right). It is quiet and
famous for its stunning
sunsets. The beach is a
favou rite with locals and
has good watersports,
especially windsurfing
and kite surfing, which
take advantage of its
strong offshore winds.
Bioporos
Cedars and
7 0
Ecological
Junipers
Farm The Korisíon Lagoon is
This super eco­farm, famous for the forests of
which is open to visitors cedar trees and juniper
and offers farm stays, has bushes found around its
a great restaurant where beaches. The forests have
local dishes are prepared developed over millennia
using organic ingredients and add a different habitat
from the estate, such as for the wildlife and birdlife
vege tables, olives and that thrives in the natural
honey. You can also watch ecosystem of the lagoon.
bread being baked in the
restaurant’s wood oven. NEED TO KNOW
Local Flora
8 MAP D5
There are said to
Bioporos Ecological
be no fewer than twelve Farm: Korisíon Lagoon,
species of orchid and lily 49080, Corfu; 26610
around the lagoon, the 76224; www.bioporos.gr
most notable being the Livadiotis Winery:
rare lily Pancratium Thesi Halikouna, Agios
maritimum. This white Matheos, Kastellana,
flower grows on the sand Messi, 49084, Corfu;
dunes and has a pleasant 26610 28482
Migratory
6 scent, especially on still • The Korisíon Lagoon –
Birds
summer evenings.
While you will see or the “great lake” as
Livadiotis
seagulls, ducks and 9 locals refer to it – is in
swans all year round Winery southwest Corfu. It is
at Korisíon Lagoon, in The lagoon is surrounded best reached from the
spring and autumn you by vineyards and it is west coast town of
might also from here that the Pélekas, or cross-
catch sight of flavoursome Protected country from the east
coast town of Mesongí.
some migratory Geographical Indication
birds on their (PGI) Halicouna wine is • There are few facilities
journey between produced. A dry white other than at the small
Africa and central with fruity aromas, resort of Agios Georgios,
Europe. These it is made from a handful of beach bars,
include swallows, the kakotrygis the Bioporos Ecological
the majestic black grape grown Farm and the Livadiotis
Great Cormorant almost exclu­ Winery, home of the
(right) and the white sively in this Greek wine Halicouna.
Great Egret. part of Corfu.
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