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LANDSCAPE OF CORFU Much of Corfu's charm lies in her landscape. This is beautiful and hospitable; the island has around 200 villages scattered over it, most of them unchanged for several hundred years. The ground rises towards the westcoast and the north, where the high peaks of Mt. Pantocrator are visible from many other parts of the island. The interior of the island conceals several fertile valleys and plains and the whole island is covered with over two and a half million olive trees, a heritage from the 400 years of Venetian rule. These together with the unusually luxuriant vegetation from the winter rain provide the Corfiot countryside with a green that is hardly found elsewhere in Greece. All roads converge on the island's capital, Corfu Town, which, if anything, adds to the beauty of the whole. It is the only town on the island, lies on the east coast and gives incomparable views over the sea towards the Greek mainland and the mountains of Epirus and Albania. Its appeal lies in the variety of Venetian, French, British and Greek architectural styles which have miraculously combined to produce a charming period piece. The town has developed continuously from its beginnings a thousand years ago to the present day, and luckily still has relatively few 20th century buildings. The historic heart of Corfu Town underwent a major refurbishment for the European Summit in June 1994.
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