Sitting in the Ionian Sea, several miles west off of Greece's northwest coast and Albania's southwest coast, Corfu is the second largest of the Ionian Islands. This T-shaped island's 229 square ...

Corfu has a time-honoured musical tradition and is renowned for its cheery marching brass bands (filarmonikes in Greek) – an impressive 18 in all, the first of which was founded in 1840.