Old Town of Corfu
Also known as Παλιά Πόλη της Κέρκυρας
1386
Neoclassical
landscape
The Old Town of Corfu is a fortified port city at the entrance to the Adriatic, built up over a Greek settlement whose roots reach to the 8th century BCE but whose visible character is Venetian, British and neoclassical. The Republic of…
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Timeline
- 1400-1797
Venetian fortifications. Four centuries of Venetian rule produced the Old Fortress on the eastern peninsula and the wider fortification system defending the Adriatic entrance.
- 1576-1645
New Fortress. The New Fortress on Agios Markos hill closed the northwest edge of the old town in lower and upper levels designed for artillery defense.
- 1800-1864
British protectorate. Under the British protectorate the fortifications were repaired and partly rebuilt, and the town's housing stock took much of its present neoclassical character.
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- Amethyst forest (aka VM) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Misa.stefanovic.07 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maksym Kozlenko · CC BY-SA 4.0
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