Related geographic locations and collections: Corfu, Greek Islands, Ionian Islands (Ionian Sea), Ithaca, Travel guides & practical guides
Practical guide Smart Smart of the island of Corfu and other Ionian Islands.
The Ionian Islands may be less known than the Cyclades yet these seven islands, placed at the crossroads of Europe and the Balkans, have nothing to envy them. Inhabited since prehistory, the Ionian archipelago has developed a prosperous civilization under the Mycenian domination, when the famous hero of the Odyssea Ulysse reigned on Ithaca, then the Venetian influence has shaped architecture and culture in turn. islanders. The largest island of the Ionian archipelago, Corfu, which is only 3:30 from France by plane, is already the promise of an intense scenery: off the Albanian coasts, the extent of silver olive trees, of Dark cypresses and shrubs in pink flowers warming hearts as well as the 3000 hours of sunshine a year. The Empress Sissi had found refuge away from the Protocol of the Court of Austria-Hungary, because it is in these Ionian lands to say that the "Nostos", this nostalgic desire to return to the country that animates the epic heroes, Takes all its meaning.
ISBN/EAN : 9782305107158
Publication date: 2024
Pagination: 238 pages
Folded dimensions: 12 x 20.5cm
Language(s): French
Poids :
220 g
