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Byzantine
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FALIRAKI
OLD PORT
CAMPIELLO
Palace of
SS Michael
& George
Mitrópolis
Néo
Froúrio
Áyios
Spyrídhon
Cricket
pitch
Green Bus
Station
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PATE RO
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Listón
Spianádha
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Paleó
Froúrio
Market
RESTAURANTS
Adherfi Theotoki
Alekos Beach
La Cucina
Mourayia
Rex
To Paradosiakon
Venetian Well Bistro
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9
3
8
1
7
6
4
Room
Owners
Association
PLATIA
SAROKO
Maitland
Rotunda
Blue
Bus Station
CAFÉS
Art Café
En Plo
Kapodhistrias
Statue
5
2
CLUBS
Au Bar
Hook
Sodoma
Cine Orfeus
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2
1
Cine
Finikas
Police
Station
ACCOMMODATION
Atlantis
Bella Venezia
Cavalieri
Corfu Palace Hotel
Konstantinoupolis
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4
3
5
2
British
Cemetery
Archeological
Museum
CORFU TOWN
Airport, Achilleion & the south
, Mon Repos Estate, Paleópolis & Kanóni
Byzantine Museum
Arseníou • Tues-Sun 9am-3pm • €2 •
T
26610 38313
Up a short flight of steps on Arseníou, the
Byzantine Museum
is housed in the restored
church of the Panayía Andivouniótissa. It houses church frescoes and sculptures and
sections of mosaic floors from the ancient site of Paleópolis, just south of Corfu Town.
There are also some pre-Christian artefacts, and a collection of icons dating from
between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Church of Áyios Spyrídhon
Spyrídhonos • Daily 8am-9pm
A block behind the Listón is the sixteenth-century
church of Áyios Spyrídhon
, whose
maroon-domed campanile dominates the town. Here you will find the silver-encrusted
coffin of the island's patron saint,
Spyrídhon
- Spyros in the diminutive - after whom
seemingly half the male population is named. Four times a year (Palm Sunday and the
following Sat, Aug 11 and the first Sun in Nov), to the accompaniment of much
celebration and feasting, the relics are paraded through the town streets. Each of the
days commemorates a miraculous deliverance of the island credited to the saint - twice
from plague, once from a famine and, in the eighteenth century, from the Turks.
The Mitrópolis
Platía Mitropóleos • Daily 8am-7pm
After Áyios Spyrídhon the next most important of the town's many churches, the
Mitrópolis
(Orthodox cathedral), is perched at the top of its own square opposite the
Old Port. It also houses the remains of a saint, in this case St Theodora, the
