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AGRAFI (Village) CORFU
The church of Agios Nikolaos of Promahidi stands in a lovely spot north of Xanthates, where poppies abound in spring.
At one time, Promahidi must have been one of the most important villages in the north of Corfu, but little remains today.
Only the extensive ruins of the church indicate the former size of this settlement. Along with many other villages, Pomahidi was razed during a raid which occurred around 1399-1403. Its inhabitants abandoned it and founded a new settlement, the village of Agrafi.
Here, like at Promahidi, they built a church dedicated to their patron sain, Agios Nikolaos.
AVLIOTES (Small town) CORFU
Avliotes is situated south-west of Peroulades, a picturesque village on a sharp hill, just 3 kilometres from the magnificent beach of Agios Stefanos.
Like other villages in the municipality, Avliotes was first settled during the Archaic period.
It has three beautiful churches: Taxiarchon, Agios Arsenios and Panagia Kathodigitra (dedicated to the Virgin Mary). On the second day after Easter the icon of the Church of Taxiarchon is carried around the village in procession, an event which commemorates a miracle which saved the village from drought in 1831.
Avliotes has its own band and a four-part choir.
KAROUSSADES (Small town) CORFU
Karousades was settled by refugees that fled to Corfu from the Greek town of Karousa near the black sea, together with other settlers from the same region, around 20 BC.
By the Byzantine period Karousades had grown to become a major civic center. Karousades stuns the visitor by the dense silver-green olive groves which surround it and by the houses which border the village road.
KAVALOURI (Village) CORFU
South-east of Karousades is the picturesque village of Kavalouri, named after a nobleman, Kavalourios, a great landowner in the area. In the village stands a mansion built in 1540 which, as we see by the family emblem above the entrance archway, belonged to the Theotoki family. This mansion was later sold to the artist Angelos Giallinas, the favourite painter of Queen Elisabeth of Austria.
PEROULADES (Village) CORFU
The village’s name derives from the Peroulis family. It was founded during pre-Homeric times but there is also evidence that it was inhabited as early as the late Bronze Age period. Peroulades flourished during the Middle Ages; it possessed a guard with long range guns for defense against pirate raids. Only a raid in 1403 caused great destruction, despite the fearless opposition of the villagers. Several important figures, such as Dontis, Koletis and the great poet and writer Kalvos, came to Peroulades. Peroulades boasts one of the best beaches in Corfu, golden sand backed by dramatic cliffs, with a view of the three little Diapontian islands away over the wide sea to the north. The sunset is famous, and Peroulades is lovely in the moonlight. The locals are renowned for their kindness, hospitality and high spirits.
SIDARI (Village) CORFU
Sidari is part of Peroulades, more specifically part of Ano Peroulades. From 1503-1505 it was an independent called Garnades or Garnavades. The modern name derives from the church of Agios Siderios. Today Sidari is one of Corfu’s top tourist resorts, famous for the Canal d’ Amour.
VALANIO (Village) CORFU
Valanio is picturesque village located to the west of Kyprianades. ‘Valanio’ means ‘public bath’ and to the east there is a spring called ‘giatriki vrisi’ (healing spring). While its therapeutic powers have not been in use for centuries. According to one local tradition, Queen Argyro would bathe there during her visits to the nearby fortress. The ‘fortress’ is located some 500 metres lower down at the now vanished village of Kastro, so called because rocks encircling the habitation, used by its defenders for their gun emplacements, created a natural fortress. The inhabitants of Valanio have a reputation for loyalty and for love of the arts.
VELONADES (Village) CORFU
The village of Velonades sits in a plain and was first founded towards the end of the Archaic period.
Velonades, as well as surrounding villages- Nymphes, Magoulades and others- were initially constructed using a material that was a mixture of argil and grass due to the lack of stone.
In Velonades a civilasition grew which is still flourishing. The visitor can admire the deep-green olive-covered hills which surround it, with a background of the boundless blue sea.
Terraces of cottages contribute to the idyllic scene.
The name of the village probably derives from the Velonis family.
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