Many people each year choose Corfu, Greece, to be their holiday destination. The island is situated between the very end of Italian Peninsula and Albanian coast but it belongs to Greece < periphery Ionian Islands>. Warm waters of Ionian Sea drag here tourists from all around the world. The island’s relief is varied: northern part of Korfu is mountainous, the central undulating, and the southern low-lying. Green cypress groves as well as those consisting of oil trees are common there. Corfu’s coastline is a bit varied, with slopes of hills ending up in clear sea waters and sandy beaches ringing small but so beautiful that nearly captivating bay’s. One of them is St. George’s bay in the northern part of the island.
This Greek island is more often than not chosen by affluent businessmen or other wealthy people to buy apartments, which is due to the mild climate of the island and the vastness of possibilities of how to spend time. The City of Corfu is full of outstanding monuments. Island’s history begins in 734 BC when the colony was founded < the metropolis was Korint>. Most valuable remains are exhibited in Archeologial Museum in Corfu for example a collection of ancient coins. Worth seeing is also a British Cemetary with beautifully carved gravestones. Interesting place to visit is also a museum of shells where most incredible and valuable shells from the Ionian Sea can be seen. Some less special objects are available to purchase.