Corfu — The Most European of Greek Islands
The Venetians governed Corfu for four centuries; the British protectorate added cricket and ginger beer. The result is an island with a European cultural depth unlike anywhere else in Greece: a UNESCO Old Town of Venetian palazzi, the Achilleion summer palace of Empress Sisi, and a north coast of private estates and hillside villages that has attracted successive generations of European nobility and global cultural figures.
The Northern Estates
The area around Agni Bay, Kalami, and Kassiopi in northern Corfu is where the great families have always come: the Rothschilds, the Aga Khan, the British royal family. Private estates line the coast; discretion is the primary currency. FFGR Greece's Corfu programme navigates this landscape with the necessary sensitivity.
Cultural Corfu
The Old Town programme: the Museum of Asian Art in the Palace of St Michael and St George, the Byzantine Museum, the Jewish Museum, and lunch at a traditional restaurant in the old Jewish quarter — guided by a Corfu native who knows every courtyard and family history.