Insight Guides: Pocket Corfu by Insight Guides
Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Greece, Corfu
Publisher: APA
Published: 2016-03-21T04:00:00+00:00
Sinarádes
Kevin Cummins/Apa Publications
The unspoiled hill town of Sinarádes ¶ [map] lies 5km (3 miles) south of Pélekas. Towards the north end of Sinarádes, opposite the Venetian-style church tower, signs point up a stair street to the History and Folklore Museum of Central Corfu (Tue–Sun 9.30am–2pm). This minimally restored traditional Corfiot house, of a type prevalent between 1860 and 1960, contains two floors crammed with artefacts and documents. The ground floor has been left more or less as it was when inhabited, with cooking and hearth implements in the kitchen plus mocked-up salon and bedroom. The star of the single room top-floor gallery, mostly devoted to farming and craft tools (including a shoemaker’s workbench), is a portion of a papyrélla raft, made of cane fennel, used along the west and northwest coasts of Corfu until World War II. Other oddities include a moray eel trap, a wicker cage to keep toddlers from wandering off, and two special saddles used by village women when giving birth.
The scenic bay of Ágios Górdis • [map], enclosed by shaggy slopes (but rather dominated by the giant Pink Palace backpackers’ complex), is punctuated by a massive pinnacle rising from the water at the southern end – an excellent spot for snorkelling, as are the rocks at the northern end. The 600-metre sand-and-shingle beach, despite being far from the best on Corfu, can get crowded in season, as the resort just inland is sizable.
A Chip off the Old Block
According to Greek mythology, the sea god Poseidon created Paxí by striking off the southern part of Corfu to make a retreat for himself and his mistress, Amphitriti. Kirki (Circe), the enchantress who in Homer’s Odyssey detained Ulysses on her island and turned his men into swine, supposedly came from Paxí.
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