Kassiopi

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Kassiopi (Greek Κασσιόπη ( f sg ) ) is a small port city in the north east of the Greek island of Corfu at the foot of the highest mountain Pantokrator and about 35 kilometers from the island's capital Kerkyra away. The municipality was formed in 1994 as a township ( dimos ) from Kassiopi and some surrounding villages and in 2010 was in the newly created United municipality Corfu, which covers the entire island and the Diapontia Islands. In this community Kassiopi forms since one of 15 community districts.

  • 3.1 Temple of Zeus
  • 3.2 Kassopitra Panagia Church
  • 3.3 castle

Location

Kassiopi is situated in a bay and made ​​possible by its proximity to the mainland a direct view of the mountains of Albania and Greece. The place is not such as Acharavi or Sidari on the island's main road, but has parallel to the main road about 500 meters long own local main road, so the place is very few traffic. In the harbor are often sailboats and motor yachts at anchor.

About 800 of the 2,463 residents of the municipality itself live north of Kassiopi, Kassiopi is the cape Akra Kassope.

History

At the time of the Roman occupation after 230 BC Kassiopi Kerkyra was next to the main town on Corfu. The first historical mention of Kassiopi is found in Cicero, who lived 48 BC for seven days in Kassiopi. There is evidence that Emperor Nero visited Kassiopi 67 AD and sang the father of the gods in honor of a song on the Zeus sanctuary near the site of today's Kassopitra Panagia Church. Emperor Tiberius is said to have owned a residence in Kassiopi.

Naming Kassiopis

After a presumption of name with Kassopi, an ancient city that existed in the 4th century BC, should be related: Epirus. The former Epirus was built after the urban grid pattern of Hippodamos of Miletus and has similarities to the ancient Kassiopi. It is therefore assumed that Epirus ' citizens emigrated and founded Kassiopi. Another theory suggests that the name goes back to the Romans who worshiped in the main temple of the city of Zeus Kasion.

Attractions

Temple of Zeus

Near the present - Kassopitra Panagia Church, there was a temple of Zeus, whose remains were found in 1970 south of the church.

Panagia Church Kassopitra

Today Panagia Kassopitra Church was originally a three-aisled basilica, which was built for the Greek Orthodox Christians near the Temple of Zeus. In 1537 the basilica was destroyed by the Turks and erected again until 1590-1591 as a Roman Catholic church of the Venetians. This church was handed over to the Greek Orthodox Christians in the early 17th century.

There is a Latin inscription, which commemorates the rebuilding of the church involved in the Venetian governor Petro Francisco Mali Petro, in Philippo Pascalico, which enlarged the church later, and the decoration of the church by Nicolao Suriano Above the entrance portal.

In 1530 a young man named Stephanos said to have been convicted of theft from the governor Simon Lion glare. After his punishment his mother said to have brought the blind Stephanos in the Panagia Kassopitra Church, in which he awoke the next morning, a May 8, with full vision. The miracle is the Holy Mother Matron, the Holy of Kassiopi attributed. Since this incident, May 8th is a holiday in Kassiopi.

Fort

In the 11th century the Normans controlled large areas of the Adriatic and the Ionian Sea, this was one for a few years also Corfu. In Kassiopi 1084 there was a great battle, in which the Normans were defeated by the Venetians. Only in the second half of the 13th century, Kassiopi mentioned historically in again. The Anjou of the Kingdom of Naples from 1267 to 1386 were the masters of Corfu and built the Castle today preserved as a ruin.

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