Kerkyra (Corfu) is the capital of the island of the same name. Kerkyra is a Greek name, and Corfu is an Italian one, which has taken root among foreigners. Corfu is the second largest island in the Ionian Sea after Kefalonia. It is the northernmost of the entire group and is considered the most beautiful.… Read more »
Lights and shadows in the crisis The financial crisis of Greece has made manifest the chronic inability of its governments to carry out an efficient economic policy, of which it has shown the inadequacy in relation to both the management of the important obligations deriving from the participation of the State in the Economic and… Read more »
Architecture. – The most important new monuments are represented by those excavated by the American Archaeological School in the agora of Athens including the surely identified thólos, the stoa of Zeus Eleutherios and other buildings (see Athens, in this App.). On the Acropolis we must remember the refitting of the temple of Athena Nike by N. Balanos and… Read more »
The island of Kos is one of the Greek Dodecanese islands in the southeastern Aegean. As the third largest of its 18 inhabited islands, its northern tip extends to around 5 kilometers from the Turkish peninsula of Bodrum. Its capital, which is also located in the northern part of the island and bears the name… Read more »