To begin: Local open air gym, complete with protest banner about how the city has been asking the government for funding for a closed roof gymnasium for the past 40 years.
I liked the juxtaposition of the basketball hoops and the crumbling stately Old Town building in the background.
St Athanasius Square, the tourist placard says, was a battlement or something like that, which I guess explains why it wasn’t built up until the 20th century.
And smack in the middle of Old Corfu town, the results are as much an eyesore as you might expect of 20th century Greece.
On this side of the square, the lesser eyesore, the municipal theater. Standard brutalist structure trying to echo something nicer, and failing. (Corfu Town already has a real colonnade, in the Liston.)
Eyesore points added for the municipal theater being so titled in English only. You’re the municipal theatre, not a souvenir shop. Have some self-respect.
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