Achillion Palace

Less than 10 miles from the city you come across the magnificent palace of the Queen of Austria Elizabeth, Achillion. The loved Queen - whose life became a movie- gave preference to Corfu over all the other islands of the Ionian Sea, during her cruise in the Mediterranean islands, when she wanted to overcome her personal problems.

The entrance of the building is decorated with many statues and balconies. In the balcony of the first floor there are two vis-a-vis centaurs whereas in the balcony of the second floor there are four brass statues, which represent the mouses holding fire in their hands and serve as lights. In the same floor there is another brass statue from Hermes. Inside the building you come across on the right, a room functioning as a chapel and on left there is a dinning room and smokers room. In the center there is the reception room with many paintings of well-known painters like the "four seasons" by the Italian painter Galopi and the "triumph of Achilles"by the Austrian Frank Matt.

In the first floor there are the rooms of Elisabeth and in the second floor there are the rooms of Frank Jozef and of the archduchess Maria Valeria. In the balcony of this floor there is a peristyle of Ionian order which is decorated by the heads of philosophers and the statues of the nine mouses. Wonderful statues decorate the gardens of the palace, like the 'dying Achilles', the' Satyre with Dionysus on his shoulder', the' Lord Byron', an impressive statue of Achilles of 11,5m height and many more. Until a few years ago, the palace was used as a casino. Now the palace is used as a museum.