Tourist information - Corfu
Between the heel of Italy and also the west coast of mainland Greece, green, mountainous Corfu (Kerkyra) was among the first Greek islands to draw in mass tourism in the 1960s. Indiscriminate exploitation turned parts into eyesores, but much of the island still features olive groves, mountain or woodland. The majority of package holidays are located in the most developed resorts, but unspoiled terrain is often only a few minutes' walk away.
Corfu is assumed to have been the model for Prospero's and Miranda's place of exile in Shakespeare's The Tempest , and was definitely known to writers like Spenser and Milton and - lately - Lear and Miller, plus Gerald and Lawrence Durrell. Lawrence Durrell's Prospero's Cell evokes the island's "delectable landscape", still evident in some of the greatest beaches of the whole archipelago.
The staggering amount of accommodation (over 5000 places) on the island signifies that competition keeps prices down even just in peak season, at least in many resorts away from Kérkyra Town. Prices at restaurants and in shops also are typically a bit cheaper than average for the Ionians.
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