Corfu Island - the last bastion of Byzantium

The island of Corfu is the northernmost of all the Greek islands. Among other Greek lands and islands, Corfu is unique in that it is the only one that has never been touched by Turkish conquerors. Many Orthodox shrines have been preserved here, even if the Latin-Venetian occupation (XII-XVIII centuries) led to the emergence of its own peculiarities in the life of the local church... Who has not seen its rocky shores! Corfu was owned (or wanted and tried to take possession of it) by the Greeks, the Diadochi - the heirs of Alexander the Great, the Illyrians, the Romans, the Normans, the Crusaders, the Sicilians, the Angevins, the Venetians, the Turks, the French, the English...