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Pontikonisi (Greek: Ποντικονήσι, "Mouse Island") is a Greek islet near the island of Corfu. Its prominent feature is a Byzantine chapel of Pantokrator, dating from the 11th or 12th century. [1] The island of Pontikonisi might have served as an inspiration for Arnold Böcklin's painting Isle of the Dead. [2]
Temperatures to remain high in Italy, Greece and across the Balkans even as heatwave eases in France and Spain Greece fires - live: Evacuation orders for parts of Corfu after Jet2 and Tui scrap ...
Corfu (/ k ɔːr ˈ f (j) uː / kor-FEW, - FOO, US also / ˈ k ɔːr f (j) uː / KOR-few, -foo) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kérkyra, pronounced ⓘ) [a] is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands; [1] including its small satellite islands, it forms the margin of Greece's northwestern frontier. [2]
Antipaxos (Greek: Αντίπαξος, pronounced [ɐnˈdipɐksos]) is a small island (5 km 2) in Greece, about 3 kilometres (2 miles) to the south of Paxos. It is administratively part of the municipality of Paxoi in Corfu regional unit in western Greece. As of 2021, the resident population of the island was 21. [1]
Greece faces seventh day of fires as temperatures surged to 46.6C in the south on Sunday
The sea defences of the New Fortress were destroyed by the British when the British protectorate came to an end and Corfu was united with Greece in 1864. [15] Under the same agreement, the Avrami and Vido island forts were also destroyed. When the latter fort was demolished, the explosion was so strong that it broke house windows on the Corfu ...
Sinarades (Greek: Σιναράδες) is a town and a community in the northern part of the island of Corfu, Greece, part of the municipal unit of Parelioi. The community includes the small villages Aspes and Kontogialos. Sinarades is the largest village of Parelioi. Sinarades is located southwest of the city of Corfu.
The channel is a passage from the Adriatic Sea on the north to the Ionian Sea [1] that is used by shipping local to Albania and Greece to the ports of Saranda, Albania, and Igoumenitsa, Greece, and by local and tourist traffic in Albania and from the Greek mainland to Corfu, in addition to some international traffic from the Adriatic. [2]