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Must See
Japan, Indochina and India
include statues, porcelain
ware, screens, armour, silk
and ceramics. In front of the SHOP
building is a statue of Sir
Frederick Adam, the British
High Commissioner to Corfu Agíou Spyridónos
from 1824 to 1831. He built The pedestrianized
the Mon Repos Villa (p69) street of Agíou
south of town and was also Spyridónos is fertile
responsible for popularizing territory for buying
the west coast resort of souvenirs, with
Paleokastrítsa (p74), one of his religious icons,
favourite spots on the island. jewellery and items
made of olive wood
particular specialities.
The pretty, sun- 3 "
bathed rooftops of Byzantine Museum
Corfu’s Old Town
⌂ Prosfórou 30 & Arseníou of magnificent icons on
# 8am–2:45pm Tue–Sun
¢ Main public hols ∑ anti display, dating from the 15th
First opened in 1928, the core vouniotissamuseum.gr to the 18th centuries, are
of the museum’s collection is worth the effort. Many are by
the 11,000 items that were The Byzantine Museum, which artists from the Cretan School
donated by Grigorios Manos, opened in 1984, is housed in who worked and lived on
a Greek diplomat who had the renovated church of Corfu as the island was a con­
amassed the objects on his Panagía Antivouniótissa. One venient stopping­off point on
travels overseas, and wished of the town’s oldest buildings, the journey between Crete
to curate the new museum. it is responsible for some of and Venice from the 13th to
Unfortunately he died before the museum’s finest exhibits. the 17th centuries during
he could realize this ambition. The small museum takes a Venetian rule, especially after
The exhibits from China, Tibet, bit of finding but the number Crete fell to the Ottomans.

0 metres 200 N
0 yards 200 A R S I N O U Panagía
Antivouniotissa
Solomos
Ferry Terminal Old Port D O N Z E L O T Museum P I E RI Mouragia
A R S I N O U
Byzantine
2 km (1.2 miles) PROSFÓROU Museum R A R T OUROU
A T H I N A G O R A PL. LILI FALIRAKI
ZAVITSIANOU PROSS A L E NTI O U AG T H EODORAS DESILA D O U S M ANI Museum of
E L E N I S
Asian Art
Bakalogatos The VOUTHROTOU Palace of St Michael
Venetian Well
Panagía FILELINON and St George
LEONDOS
ALY P I O U
Spiliótissa THEODHOSIOU
S O L O M O U Ágios AG SPYRIDONOS K A PO D ISTR IOU
XENOFONTOS STRATIGOU
New N T H E O T O K I Spyrídon KALOHERETOU
Fortress Paper Money
T KOTARDOU
Museum I PI RO U Listón
PL. AG. V A R VARAS Casa
PATERON M THEOTOKI Parlante ELEFTHERIAS
P A L E O L O G O U
SOTIROS P A N T O N PLATEIA
ANO
V E L I S S A R I O U
VOULGAREOS Old
T E N E D O U
Platía Town V . D O U S M A N I Fortress
Hall
VOULGAREOS P S O R O U L A YIOTOPOULOU Esplanade PLATEIA
PALEOLOGOU
Dimarhíou
LOCHAGOU SPIRIDO
KATO
VONDHIOLOU
NOS VLAIKOU
SCHULENBURG
CH R O NI
Enosis
Y. T H E O T O K I PANTOVA D. KOLA G U ILFO R D GENATA K A P O D I S T Monument
MARKORA
IOAN NOU THEOTOKI
POL. KONSTANTA PLATIA M O U S T O X Y D I Bandstand
MAVILI
IDROMENON R I O U
GIALINA
A G P O L I T E C H N I O U A G P O L I T E C H N I O U
Bus SAROKKO MANTZAROU DESYLIA N ZAMBELIOU G U I L FO R D SOULIOU Maitland Monument
Station Bella Venezia
Kanóni Archaeological Museum Corfu Palace Hotel Mon Repos Villa Ágii láson ke Sosípatros
4.5 km (3 miles) 300 m (325 yd) 200 m (220 yd) 2.5 km (2 miles) 1.5 km (1 mile)
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