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Isla Corfú
The Island Corfu is without the doubt one of the most popular destinations in Greece and it is considered to be the most spectacular sceneries in Greece. Geographically the west of Greece is located, it is inside the Albania sight, I joust on the beach of the Greek continent and on 75km of the heel of Italy.
It is the second biggest later Cephalonia of Ionian Islands known as Seven Islands, or Eptanese. Together with the small island of Paxi and others that are even smaller (Antipaxi, Othoni, Erikoussa, Mathraki), the Island Corfu it constitutes a separated prefecture, of the periphery Ionian Islands.
This has an area of 592 square kilometer, a line of the 217 kilometers coast and a population of more than 100,000 manufacture it the biggest Ionic island in population terms. The main city of the island is also the Island Corfu call, or Kerkyra in the Greek. The name “the Island Corfu” comes from the word coryphi, that means the peak and it was used for the Acropolis of the capital. The name Kerkyra only is used in Greece. To the rest of the world they know it as the Island Corfu.
Because of the Mediterranean soft climate and the high precipitations during the winter, the Island Corfu is full of abundant and green vegetation and wild plants, approximately 65 % of the surface of the island is in the cultivación and 59 % of this area is covered of olives, trees of cypress, trees of citric, fruit-bearing trees and vineyards; this does of the Island Corfu one the most green islands in Greece.
The island of the Island Corfu was one of the first islands in Greece to open to the tourism and there has been done since then a center of international important tourism that attracts many visitors and offering of tourist quite equipped and modern facilities. Briefly the island trasportará to the visitors with unforgettable memoirs, an earthly paradise. In general the Island Corfu is visited especially during the spring to autumn periods and it better avoided during the winter sports resort because it rains often.
