Day 33 - Corfu - Cruise Ship MSC Fantasia

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Arriving at Corfu again we had only about 4 hours including getting off and back on the boat so our main aim here was to see the old fort and lighthouse. What an amazing place! This island has a great feel about it and we wandered the old town streets awhile and eventually found the old fort and palace. Walking across the moat you felt you were stepping back in time, we climbed the acropolis to the top and what a great view over the town. This fortress dates back to about 600ad when the local people needed walls and a fort to stop the marauding packs from attacking them all the time. Eventually the Turks took them over for quite a while and then the Venetians came in 1300 and kicked the Turks out and built the second part of the fort, more walls and the big moat with moveable bridge. Well all things come to an end and then the Russians were there for a while until the English took the lot around 1800. This was a very important sea port and hence everyone wanting to own it, eventually it went to Greece and will likely remain there going forward. Great place and a must see again, it is a large island so a couple of weeks should do it.

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