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PORTA REMOUNTA - Corfu town (Kerkyra) Hot Spots

This is a neighbourhood to the south-west of the Spianada. It took its name from the Reymondou Gate, one of the four town gates in Venetian times, which has not survived. The centre of the district is Moustoxidi Street or broad (plati) Kantouni, a fine street beginning at the Spianada and ending at the neo-classical building of the Ionian Parliament, work of the Corfiot architect loannis Chronis, who also designed the Kapodistrias House. On the plaques set into the facade is inscribed in Greek and English the 1863 decree announcing the unification of the Ionian islands with Greece.
At No. 19 Moustoxidi St. stands the Serviki Estia, or Serbian Society, a small museum with mementoes from the period when the Serb government and parliament were established in Corfu (1916-18). On Guilford St., perpendicular to Moustoxidi street., which ends at Dimarcheiou Square, you will find restaurants and mini-markets. Stock up on delicious pies and sandwiches from the Starenio bakery and continue your walk along the narrow streets with the hyacinths, bougainvilleas and antique shops. Instead of crowds with cameras you'll find local people taking their children to school or popping round to the grocer's (the laundry hanging out to dry is a permanent part of the decor here). People gather on the southern side of the square, on Aspioti Street all year round. Here you'll find jazz Rock (the winter haunt of the most demanding local people), the Orfeas Cinema and the Foinikas, its open-air summer version.














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