| Corfu
town has so many shops selling jewelry, leather goods, olive wood objects,
and handmade needlework that it is impossible to single out one or another.
All we can advise is to look around--especially along Odos Filarmonikis
(off Odos N. Teotoki), if needlework's your thing--and select something
that pleases; prices are generally fair and uniform.
Standing
out from the many standard souvenir-gift shops, Antica, Odos Ayios Spiridon
25, leading away from the north end of Liston (tel. 0661/32-401), offers
unusual older jewelry, plates, textiles, brass, and icons. Gravures, Odos
Ev. Voulgareos 64, where the street emerges from the old town to join the
new town (tel. 0661/41-721), has a fine selection of engravings and prints
of scenes from Corfu, all nicely matted. The elegant Terracotta,
Odos Filarmonikis 2, just off Odos N. Theotoki, the main shopping street
(tel. and fax 0661/45-260), sells only contemporary Greek work: jewelry,
one-of-a-kind pieces, ceramics, and small sculptures, some by well-known
Greek artists and artisans. Nothing is cheap, but everything is classy.
There
is no end of ceramics to be found in Corfu, but we like the Pottery Workshop,
15 kilometers (10 miles) north of Corfu on the right of the road to Paleokastritsa
(tel. 0661/90-704), where you get to observe Sofoklis Ikonomides and Sissy
Moskidou making and decorating all the pottery on sale here. Whether decorative
or functional, something here will certainly appeal to your taste. Two
kilometers further along the road, on the left, is the Wood's Nest, offering
a large selection of olive wood objects just slightly cheaper than in town. |
