Car Hire Corfu Airport Int

Corfu is the second largest and most northerly of the Ionian Islands in the Greek Mediterranean in the amount of Italian Stiefelabsatzes. From the North of Eilandes, it is only two kilometres to the Albanian coast. Including some small islands are counted to Corfu, live here 45,000 people on a total area of 641 square kilometres.

The North of Corfu is covered for the most part of a mountain range, whose highest point which is Pantokrator at 906 metres. In good weather you can see from here to Italy. In the South, the island shows above all their original appearance. The mild, Mediterranean climate of Corfu also already once attracted the legendary Austrian empress Sissi on the beautiful Greek patch. Lovingly, she had at that time restore the Achillion Palace and made it their summer residence. The imposing building, is optimally with a rental car.

Absolutely worth seeing is the old part of Corfu city with its narrow streets and romantic taverns and shops. It was even the James Bond Strip in deadly mission as a film set. Among the most beautiful corners of Corfu is also the area of Paleokastritsa in the western part of the island. In addition to five bays and two peninsulas, especially the monastery Moni Paleokastritsa, located high on a mountain is one of the attractions in this region. From up here, you have a fantastic view of the Ionian Sea and many smaller islands, of which one is to be the petrified ship of Odysseus.

Corfu has also beautiful sandy and pebble beaches, such as, for example, the coastline surrounded by cliffs, at Mirtiotissa. You will find a wide range of water sports, however, on the two and a half kilometre-long sandy beach of Agios Georgios.