I’ve always wanted to travel Greece ans the islands around it. I was always fascinated with the history around this reign. It is really unique as one of the first notable civilizations to pop up in the world. A lot of the remains of the civilization still stand today. We can see what they did what events went on and what there out come was. I was always interested in the time period 420 B.C When the Spartans were around and the battles that they were involved in.
One of the many mentor blogs that I choose is “The Old Historic Quarter, Corfu, Greece” by CadyLuck Leedy. The author published this blog pretty recently she published it March of this year, so she had to gone earlier this year or late last year. She posted a lot of pictures of her journey and what she saw. In these pictures they are all the attractions and interesting places to go in the Old historic Quarter. She also includes a little bit of history into her post at the beginning.
The first interesting picture to me was a picture of a map showing what there is to do on the island. The map included parts of Corfu port and the old historic quarter. The map covers all the areas of interest and what there is to see. She goes into the history of the old fortress that lays at the end of the sea. She goes to tell that in the Venetian age the castle was the grounds of the Royal Palace of St. George and St. Micheal. She goes to say that the walls of the castle are built from yellow Maltese limestone. That was commissioned by British Lord Sir Thomas Maitland of the Ionian islands to the North-West end of Corfu. The castle was finished in 1824 it was also used as Sir Thomas’s residence for the duration of his life. It was also served as the home for the Ionian senate. The castle was designed in the Greek revival style. It was the very first building in Greece to be built with that style. During WWII it was used again as the residence for the Royal family. I really enjoyed the history of the castle and what happened there. The Castle according to Leedy really held a strong presence for the Royal family over a vast amount of time even in WWII when castles weren’t really know for housing royal families like they did thousands of years ago.
After the history lesson on the old fortress. She shows a lot of pictures about where she was and what she had seen. She showed pictures of Lanterns, maps, statues, old buildings, art, and a lot of cool antiques that were around in all the gift shops. For me as someone that whats to travel here it really shows what there is to do here and some of the history of the area. With what Leedy has showed me make me want to visit the Old Historic quarters in Greece.
Works Cited
“Old Historic Quarter, Corfu, Greece.” WordPress.com, 31 Mar. 2019, wordpress.com/read/blogs/118214377/posts/12575.
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