CORFU is a magnificent sunny island of the Ionian sea. It's a part of a complex of islands called Eptanisa (7 islands). It appears early in history when it offers refuge to Iason and the Argonautes during their return from the Argonautic campaign.

The island is described in Homer's Odyssey as the island of Faeakon the last stop Ulysses makes before reaching his beloved Ithaca.

Historical figures like Goethe, Oscar Wilde, Gerald and Lawrence Durell, the painters Alfred Sisley and Edward Lear, immortalized Corfu's unique charm. Even Napoleon couldn't resist its beauty. Princess Elisabeth (Sissy) built Achilleon. Shakespeare, according to Lawrence Durell, chose Corfu as the setting for his masterpiece "Tempest".

Corfu was the birthplace of Greece's first governor Ioannis Kapodistrias, the composer Nickolaos Mantzaros (he wrote the music to the Greek national anthem "Hymn to freedom"), Polylas, Markoras, Mavilis, Constantine Theotokis.