From the important Greek port of
Igoumenitsa, Corfu can be reached by boat in less than two hours. It is located
between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, 80 kilometers from Italy, only three
kilometers from Albania at the northernmost point.
Tourists walking through Corfu will seem to
have already seen the streets and buildings there. They are right - white stone
houses and narrow streets are reminiscent of Dalmatia. Venetians were the
undisputed masters of Corfu until 1797. During that time they built many
buildings and some neighborhoods in the city of Corfu face Venice. The
influence of Venice is reflected in the cuisine. The streets of the island are
intersected by numerous squares and decorated with buildings mostly Italian and
English architecture. Liston Street is especially interesting for tourists.
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In his epic about Odysseus, Homer spoke of
Corfu as the last residence of the king of Ithaca before his return to his
homeland. .One of his heirs, the daughter of King Alcinus, Nausica, found
Odysseus the only survivor on a broken ship, which is still a symbol of the
island.
The written history of Corfu begins in 734
BC when it was inhabited by the Corinthians. Philip and Alexander the Great,
Cicero, Cato, Caesar and Mark Antony came here. and was under it for a full
1000 years.
The Turks constantly attacked the island
and made massacres. The Russians passed there: the French, under the leadership
of Napoleon, and then the English, so that Corfu could finally join the mother
country in 1864.
Near the sumptuous entrance is Elizabeth’s
life-size sculpture made of marble.
On the back are spacious terraces. On the
first are marble sculptures of all nine muses and an unknown number of famous
people of ancient Hellas. On the second are cherubs and nymphs and on the third
Achilles 14 meters high after which the villa is named.
Frau Sisi as the Empress was called was a
very educated and very advanced woman for her time. She fought for women's
rights, the right to education, as well as for general social justice.
When she married Francis Joseph, then an
Austrian prince, many took this for evil.
When beautiful Sisi became a mother, her
free-thinking ideas became dangerous, so her mother-in-law took away her
children.
Crown Prince Rudy fell passionately in love
with the older but beautiful Mary, whose origin was not in the network of the
imperial house, so he suffered reproaches not only from his grandmother but
also from the whole court. He only had the support of his mother. with her a
terrible night and before they both raised their hands to themselves he wrote a
letter to his mother in which he explained the reasons for such an act. It was a
tragedy that shook the world.
Her life ended at the beginning of the last
century in the park of a Swiss spa when an ex-Italian fell on Elizabeth with a
knife, blinded by jealousy. Later it turned out that the assassination was the
result of an accident.
On the terrace of Achilles, under a tree
canopy, there is a sculpture of Frina. Frina was a Corinthian whose beauty
fascinated everyone who saw her. Disappointed Frina decided to entrust her
destiny to Aphrodite and become a priestess in her temple, which stands white
above the city.
The Pantheon was a debauched society in
which even the supreme god Zeus did not shy away from adultery and even
adultery, and the gods of the lower order regularly had orgies with mortals as
well. made available to the men who came to the temple. With the arrival of
Frina, the devotees of the goddess Aphrodite multiplied, and that one day of
the year became commonplace.
The jealous Corinthians decided to stand in
the way of this fornication of their husbands. He is guilty and he could not
oppose the raging women.
While the cheerful Corinthians were looking
for stones to shower Frina with, the judge got up and approached the frightened
heterosexual. He took a ring with a huge precious stone from his finger and
inserted it into Frina's bosom. accepted. Frina returned to Aphrodite's temple
with her guts full of jewels.
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The shocking story of the suffering of soldiers
outside the borders of their homeland is the story of one of the largest
Serbian sanctuaries outside the borders of Serbia. It is the story of the
island of Vido and the Blue Tomb.
After the fall of Belgrade in the First World War, the Serbian army and part of the civilian population arrived in Corfu after the crossing of Albania. The horrors that the Serbian people survived in that retreat are rare in history. More than one hundred and fifty thousand Serbian soldiers arrived in Corfu. After crossing the Albanian mountains, the Serbs were exhausted and many of them fell ill before arriving in Corfu.
Among the first to arrive were thousands of
boy-recruits, exhausted and suffering from dysentery, typhus, pneumonia, and
starvation. They looked like living corpses, they lay on the bare ground, under
the rain, which had been falling continuously for days. In the first days, up
to 300 unfortunates died continuously every day.
They were buried in the Blue Tomb, near
Vid.
The dead Serbian soldiers were first buried
on the rocky shore of the island of Vid, and when they began to die en masse,
they were transported by boat and sunk in the waters of the Ionian Sea, the
"Blue Tomb". It is believed that over 10,000 Serbian soldiers and
recruits were buried on the island of Vid and in the "Blue Tomb". In
1936, a large mausoleum-ossuary was built on the island of Vid, which houses
the bones of soldiers buried here.
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Uspomenu na teske dane cuva muzej Srpska kuca
The Museum of Serbs was opened in 1916-1918
on Mustoksidu Street, which opens onto the city's largest square. The city of
Corfu and the Greek government donated one of their most beautiful galleries,
an elegant house in the city center.
It is a place where our children should
learn history and their parents should make up for what they missed, what they
did not learn.
If you have chosen Corfu for your summer
vacation in Greece, the optional trip that goes without saying is a trip to the
island of Vido.
BE SURE TO VISIT
- The Royal Palace of St. George and St. Michael was built in the 19th century.
- Church of St. Spyridon, from the 16th century
- Serbian House, a museum with a permanent exhibition "Serbs in Corfu 1916-1918"
- Vido Island, where the "Blue Tomb" is located, is a mausoleum erected in memory of Serbian soldiers from the First World War.
- Achilles Palace
- A Byzantine monastery from the 18th century, at the foot of which, according to legend, the ship of Odysseus ran aground.
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