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Jul 18, 2022 · Poseidon named the island in Korkyra’s honour, and there they sired a child called Phaiax, which would become the proper noun for the citizens of Corfu. Corfu is so named today thanks to Byzantine influence, Corfu being a western corruption of Korypho, meaning peaks and referring to Corfu’s fortress installation.
Korypho-Corfu. So how come we call it Corfu? In Byzantine Greek Koryphai means ‘peaks’ and the Byzantine word Korypho means ‘city of the peaks’ – the name was given to the island because of the twin peaks of the town’s Old Venetian Fortress.
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Another tradition, placed the roots of the name “Corfu” from the corypho = coryphi (peak), by the twin peaks- today bastions- of the Corfu town where the old fortress is located. “Drepane” - which means scythe – was another name used for the island, inspired by how its shape looks from high above.
Jul 17, 2021 · The Canal d’amour at Sidari, Corfu. Credit: Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0 Located on the north of the island near Sidari, about 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the main town and on the westernmost tip of the island’s northern shore, it is remarkable for its sculpted sandstone rocks which rise up on either side, forming a natural fjord-like canal.
From the twin peaks of the new site, the medieval city received its new name, Korypho (Κορυφώ, "city on the peak") or Korphoi (Κορφοί, "peaks"), whence the modern Western name of "Corfu".
Jul 28, 2023 · This guide to Corfu will help you plan your island-hopping adventure to this iconic island of verdant hills and azure seas, right at the end of the Adriatic Sea. Known as Kérkyra to the ancients and as a sun-splashed, lush, and rugged land to travellers today, Corfu is one of Greece's timeless beauties. It straddles the Adriatic and Ionian ...
On the eastern side of town, the rocky shore crowned by two low peaks gave the name Koryfo (or peak) to the island. You enter the Old Fort (Palio Frourio), built in the 13th century, via a bridge over a seawater moat.
