Corfu Town (Kerkyra) is the town on the island of Corfu that is the seat of the Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands; the Ministry of Culture says its Old Town, two fortresses and perimeter fortifications were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2007. XTOUR maps the Old and New Fortresses and the Church of Saint Spyridon in the town, and the Achilleion at Gastouri as a place reached from it.
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Greece
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City
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Fortress · Corfu Town, Ionian Islands
The New Fortress of Corfu is the Venetian fortress on St Mark's hill at the northwestern end of Corfu town, begun around 1576 as part of the town's perimeter fortifications.
Church · Corfu Town (Old Town), Ionian Islands
The Church of Saint Spyridon is the Orthodox church in the Old Town of Corfu that keeps the relics of Saint Spyridon, whom the Metropolis of Corfu calls the island's protector.
Fortress · Corfu Town, Ionian Islands
The Old Fortress of Corfu occupies the rocky peninsula on the eastern side of Corfu town; its fortifications are of Byzantine origin, were given their present form by the Venetians and are cut off from the town by a sea moat.
Historic site · Gastouri, Ionian Islands
The Achilleion is Empress Elisabeth of Austria's palace at Gastouri on Corfu, completed in 1891 and bought by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in 1907; its official website calls the institution the Achilleion Museum.
Archaeological site · Epirus
Dodona is the archaeological site of the ancient sanctuary and oracle of Zeus and Dione at the foot of Mount Tomaros in Epirus, with a restored ancient theatre.
Cave · Perama, Epirus
The Cave of Perama is a show cave in Goritsa hill at Perama, a settlement beside Lake Pamvotida in the Municipality of Ioannina, which runs the cave.
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Santorini, Mykonos, Crete and Corfu are four very different kinds of place, and XTOUR records each differently: two islands, two cities on Crete and one town on Corfu. This guide compares what XTOUR maps on each, what Greece's official tourism and heritage pages say about them, and where a site lies outside the destination it is planned from.
XTOUR plans Greece around towns and islands rather than regions: Athens, Thessaloniki, Kalambaka, Delphi, Nafplio, Ioannina, Heraklion, Chania, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes and Corfu Town. This guide says what each base is for, which sites are reached from a base rather than inside it, and which XTOUR guide takes over for each of them.
Greek road and street signs are written in the Greek alphabet, with a Latin-letter line where appropriate, and the official romanization is the Greek standard ELOT 743. This article shows how the letters convert, why one town can appear as Kalambaka, Kalampaka or Kalabaka and one city as Heraklion, Iraklion or Irakleio, and where the official sources disagree.
Greece has 121 food names registered as PDO or PGI in the EU register, from Feta and Kalamata olives to Santorini fava and Chios mastic, and 15 protected spirit names, Ouzo among them. This guide explains what the labels require, what the register's own documents say about the best-known names, and which dishes Greece's tourism board lists for each island group.
The Greek National Tourism Organisation sorts the islands into eight groups, from the Argosaronic islands off Athens to Crete, and lists which islands belong to each. This explainer sets out those lists, where the groups overlap or disagree with Greece's administrative regions, and which XTOUR destinations sit in which group.
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