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Lefkimi |
 Lefkimi is 40 km (approx. 25 miles) from Corfu Town and Airport. Its has about 5000 inhabitants and is the aministrative centre of the southern part of Corfu. Its also the second largest town and port on the island and has a regular ferry to I gnoumenitsa.
Lefkimi is not a tourist zone, it has charm, you will still see a few donkeys in the roads and women in traditional dress. I think its resistance to tourism stems from the fact its so close to Kavos (Corfu's party capital). Technically Ano Lefkimi and Lefkimi proper are two separate places however they have now fowed into one, also incorporating Potami and Melikia. Lefkimi now has a sodium-lit dual carriage-way, so now traffic can bypass the town entirely.
The main street is very attractive, but the shops are not tourist traps they offer everyday goods, not trinkets and tat. And in the center of Lefkimi, a small canal which provides refuge for the boats during stormy days. While it's hardly Amsterdam, the canal that carries the River through the lower suburb of Potami has some pleasant spots for a meal or drink.
Lefkimi is renowned for it fine wine.
There's also some fine architecture, including several particularly imposing (but usually locked) churches: Agioi Anargiri with a striking double belfry, and Agios Arsenios, whose vast orange dome can be seen for miles around, pose proudly on raised platforms at the upper end of town, whereas Agios Theodoros and its beautiful ' camipinile' sits on a mound above a small village square, halfway down the hill towards the canal. another attractions is the beautiful church of Agioi Theodori and the monasteries of Panagia Kira Aggelon and Panagia Arkoudila, named after the hill Arkoudila, where the monastery stands. The monasteries were built in 1696-1700, by the sons of Kapodistria Varlaam in honour of the Virgin Mary, who saved them from stormy seas. During the English rule the monastery of Panagia Kira Aggelon was burnt down, yet the church was not destroyed as it served as a shelter for ill people during the outbreak of a plague. |
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