Friendly, easy-going Kassiopi, on the island of Corfu in Greece, is one of the few resorts to have retained its village atmosphere, where locals remember the faces of devoted foreign visitors who return each summer. Centring on a horse-shoe harbour, where half a dozen blue-and-white wooden fishing boats moor up each morning with the night's catch, Kassiopi also boasts five small pebble beaches, and a peninsular planted with olive trees and cypresses, and capped by the ruins of a Byzantine castle. In fact, the village's history goes back centuries. One block back from the waterfront stands the 16th-century whitewashed church of Panagia Kassopitra, built on the site of a Roman temple. And locals claim that Emperor Nero was one of the first foreign visitors to the settlement, back in the 1st century AD.
There are bars and discotheques, but there are also the oldfashioned wooden Greek fishing boats that sail out in order to catch fish. Because of its nightlife Kassiopi manily attracts young travellers. Really big hotels cannot be found here (yet). the church of Kassiopi is said to be in the place where there used to be a temple that was devoted to Jupiter. In Kassiopi there are several pebble beaches and sometimes it takes a bit of walking to reach them.
On the beaches near to the center of the village you can play watersports. Kassiopi village has a connection by bus to Corfu town (Kerkyra). the trip takes a little over an hour. Next to the beach of Kassiopi is the other less well known beach of Avlaki, which is 800 meters long and more quiet. On this spot there are mainly only Greek people (during the weekend).
