Corfu is a traditional Greek island. You can come closer with Greek culture and enjoy many traditional events like festivals where takes place every summer in all the island with traditional foods and greek dances.
Corfu is also Mythological island . In the Odyssey, the hero Odysseus is washed ashore with the help of the Goddess Athena and awakens to the laughter of princess Nausica and her friends washing clothes in a nearby stream. He was taken home to the Phaecian Palace and after revealing his identity to King Alcinous he is given a ship to take him safely to Ithaka. However during the return trip the Phaecian ship is turned to stone by the God Posideon who was angry at them for helping Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts also visited here with the Golden Fleece and it was here that he married Media.
Reconstruction of Homer's Odyssey takes place every year in Paleokastritsa where is near of Villa Grecia.
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Celebration of Easter in Corfu is part of a unique experience, and part of an extensive calendar
of religious and cultural activities different from anywhere else in Greece and particularly more
impressive for first-time visitors to the island, Including traditions such as the Easter Saturday morning at 11.00am is the time the Pot Throwing starts, this is to mark the First Resurrection.
The Pot Throwing tradition dating back to the Venetians who used to throw all their old and
useless objects and pots out of their windows on Jan1st, Just as we celebrate new years eve
by opening the doors and windows to let the old year out and the new year in, and of
course not forgetting the banging pans, fireworks, sounding of horns and sirens.
This tradition is now carried on by local Corfiot people all over the Island,
from corfu town and surrounding villages.
morning at 11.00am is the time the Pot Throwing starts, this is to mark the First Resurrection.
The Pot Throwing tradition dating back to the Venetians who used to throw all their old and
useless objects and pots out of their windows on Jan1st, Just as we celebrate new years eve
by opening the doors and windows to let the old year out and the new year in, and of
course not forgetting the banging pans, fireworks, sounding of horns and sirens.
This tradition is now carried on by local Corfiot people all over the Island,
from corfu town and surrounding villages.