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Panagía Spiliótissa,
off a square in Corfu
Old Town

a number of other fascinating
finds from the Temple of
Artemis and the excavations at
EXPERIENCE The Ionian Islands a Classical pediment showing
Mon Repos Villa, including the
Archaic Lion of Menekrates and
the god Dionysos drinking
with a youth.

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Ágii láson ke
Sosípatros
⌂ Garítsa Bay
Garítsa Bay sweeps south of
Corfu town, with the suburb
of Anemómylo visible on the
promontory. Here, in the
street named after it, is the
11th-century church of Ágii
láson ke Sosípatros (saints
Jason and Sossipater). These
disciples of St Paul brought
9 into the San Giacomo Theatre Christianity to Corfu in the
2nd century AD. Inside are
in 1720, which was the first
Panagía Spiliótissa modern theatre in Greece. A black marble columns and
second storey was added in porous masonry blocks taken
⌂ Mitropóleos § 26610
39912 # Daily 1903, after a new opera house from ancient monuments.
(destroyed in 1943) was built.
The Greek Orthodox church Adjacent to it is the Catholic
of Panagía Spiliótissa, or Virgin cathedral Ágii Iákovos ke WRITERS ON CORFU
Mary of the Cave, was built Hristóforos (saints James and Poet Dionysis Solomos,
in 1577. It became Corfu’s Christopher). Consecrated in one of Greece's most
cathedral in 1841, when the 1632, it was badly damaged prolific poets, lived on
nave was extended. It is by bombing in 1943 with only Corfu from 1828 until
dedicated to St Theodora the bell tower surviving intact. he died in 1857. Other
Avgousta, a Byzantine empress writers who have found
whose remains were brought inspiration on Corfu
to Corfu at the same time as include the British poet
those of St Spyrídon. Her body q " and artist Edward Lear,
is in a silver coffin near the altar. Archaeological who visited the island in
Museum the 19th century, and
⌂ Vraïla 1 § 26610 30680 Laurence and Gerald
0 # Hours vary, call ahead Durrell. More recently,
Erikousan Yvette
Platía Dimarhíou The Archaeological Museum is Manessis Corporon
a pleasant stroll south from the immortalized her islet,
§ 26613 62700 # Daily just off Corfu, in her
¢ Main public hols town centre along the seafront.
The collection is small but a novels Something
Within this elegant square highlight is the Gorgon frieze. Beautiful Happened
stands the Town Hall, a grand Dating from the 6th century BC, (2017), which is set
Venetian building that began it originally formed part of the during World War II,
life in 1665 as a single-storey west pediment of the Temple and When the Cypress
loggia or meeting place for the of Artemis near Mon Repos Whispers (2014).
nobility. It was then converted Villa. The museum also displays
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