Where is Corfu

Is it your destiny to visit Corfu?*

*ask Odysseus

According to Homer’s Odyssey, the naked Odysseus, lost, disoriented and not knowing how he was to get home, was shipwrecked on Corfu, the island of the Phaeacians. He told anyone that asked that his name was Nobody. The islanders, not caring about his external appearance, offered him hospitality as if he were a king. They gave him food and wine, played music and danced, organised games - just for his pleasure. Through this hospitality Odysseus discovered his true self - the king that was hidden within him - and so found his destination. His homeland. Ithaki. Today, following in the footsteps of that ancient traveller, we invite you to Corfu to stay with us, drink our wine, taste our food, listen to our music, dance with us and discover the king that is hidden within you. Discover your true self.

Discover you in Corfu

At every event the speaker or the artist occupies centre stage. The podium or stage is always in the centre. Homer set his central hero, Odysseus, to narrate his story which came to us through the two classic epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, in Corfu. Maybe because for Homer, Corfu was the centre of the then known world. Of the Mediterranean.

Where in the world is Corfu?

According to Thomas Gautier Pesquet, a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut, Corfu is in “Odysseus’ neighbourhood” “du côté de chez Ulysse”.