O que acontece em Corfu (Kerkyra), Grécia, ao longo do ano

Movimentado — Christmas holidays em Grécia, férias escolares em 7 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

Nada novo começa em janeiro.

Ainda em andamento: Olive harvest (1 Nov – 28 Fev (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Meia-estação — férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes, um mês comum

• Festival

  Corfu Carnival

  5 Fev – 10 Mar · normalmente

  Venetian in origin and still masked: weeks of satirical street theatre in the old town, ending with the burning of the carnival king on the last Sunday before Lent. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Olive harvest (1 Nov – 28 Fev (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Movimentado — Independence Day, férias escolares em 4 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Natureza

  Spring flowers and orchids

  10 Mar – 30 Abr · normalmenteFlores silvestres e floradas

  The island is the greenest in the Ionian and the olive terraces come up thick with orchids and asphodel before the summer burns it all off. The Corfu Trail is at its best now. Fonte ↗

• Feriado

  Independence Day

  25 MarFeriado nacionalFechamentos

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Corfu Carnival (5 Fev – 10 Mar (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Lotação máxima — Corfu Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) em Grécia

• Feriado

  Corfu Easter

  6–13 AbrPáscoa e Semana SantaLotadoReserve cedo

  The most Venetian Easter in Greece: philharmonic bands in the streets all week, then at eleven on Holy Saturday morning the old town throws clay pots of water off its balconies. Fonte ↗

• Abertura

  Island season opens

  15 Abr – 20 Mai · normalmenteAbertura da temporada de verão

  Resorts, charter flights and the Paleokastritsa boats restart around Easter, and the island is at its greenest for the six weeks before the heat arrives. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Spring flowers and orchids (10 Mar – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Movimentado — Cruise days in the old town, férias escolares em 4 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Festival

  Cricket on the Spianada

  1 Mai – 15 Set · normalmenteEvento esportivo

  A leftover of British rule that never went away: club matches on the ground beside the esplanade through the summer, watched from the arcade cafes by people who are mainly there for the coffee. Fonte ↗

• Temporada

  Cruise days in the old town

  1 Mai – 15 Out · normalmenteTemporada de cruzeirosLotado

  Ships tie up a ten-minute walk from the Liston and the Spianada, so the old town runs on ship hours: heaving from ten to four, and the town's own again by early evening. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Corfu Easter (6–13 Abr), Island season opens (15 Abr – 20 Mai (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Cruise days in the old town, Summer holidays em Grécia

• Temporada

  Sea warm enough to swim

  10 Jun – 20 Out · normalmente

  The Ionian is calmer and clearer than the Aegean because the meltemi does not reach it, and the west-coast bays stay swimmable into the second half of October.

Ainda em andamento: Cricket on the Spianada (1 Mai – 15 Set (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 Mai – 15 Out (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Cruise days in the old town, Summer holidays em Grécia

Nada novo começa em julho.

Ainda em andamento: Cricket on the Spianada (1 Mai – 15 Set (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 Mai – 15 Out (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Out (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Cruise days in the old town, August peak

• Feriado

  August peak

  1–28 AgoFérias escolaresLotadoReserve cedo

  Italians and mainland Greeks both take August here, so ferries from Igoumenitsa run full, the north-east coast roads jam and villa prices roughly double for the month. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Saint Spyridon litany

  11 AgoFesta religiosaLotado

  One of the four days a year the saint's body is carried through the old town, with every philharmonic band on the island behind it. The 11 August one marks a lifted siege. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Cricket on the Spianada (1 Mai – 15 Set (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 Mai – 15 Out (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Out (normalmente))

Tranquilo — viajantes descrevem como tranquilo, Cruise days in the old town

Nada novo começa em setembro.

Ainda em andamento: Cricket on the Spianada (1 Mai – 15 Set (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 Mai – 15 Out (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Out (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Cruise days in the old town, Ohi Day

• Feriado

  Ohi Day

  28 OutFeriado nacionalFechamentos

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Cruise days in the old town (1 Mai – 15 Out (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Out (normalmente))

Tranquilo — férias escolares em 2 dos países que mais mandam visitantes, um dos piores meses em clima

• Natureza

  Olive harvest

  1 Nov – 28 Fev · normalmente

  Nets go down under four million trees, most of them planted under the Venetians and never pruned, and the presses in the villages run through the winter. Fonte ↗

• Fechamento

  Resorts shut for winter

  1 Nov – 31 Mar

  Outside Corfu Town almost everything closes for the winter, the charter flights stop and the coast roads are empty. The town itself is a working Venetian city year round. Fonte ↗

Movimentado — Christmas holidays em Grécia, férias escolares em 7 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

Nada novo começa em dezembro.

Ainda em andamento: Olive harvest (1 Nov – 28 Fev (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)