Durrell Memorial Gardens

Corfu Town


A pretty park and flower garden dedicated to writer brothers Lawrence and Gerald Durrell (Gerald also became a world-renowned naturalist and conservationist), who, through their books describing their idyllic life in Corfu in the years leading up to WWII, each, unwittingly, did so much to put this island on the tourist radar.


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2. Spianada

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3. Byzantine Collection of Corfu

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4. Liston

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5. Municipal Art Gallery II

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6. Palace of St Michael & St George

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7. Municipal Art Gallery I

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8. Corfu Museum of Asian Art

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