Corfu: Achilleion: Empress Sisi's Palace
Summer.. Travelling is more than admiring nature. Snoring a bit of culture is always part of us!
The famous Austrian Empress Elisabeth, popularly and by the film of the same name known as Sisi, was completely captivated by the Greek myth about the hero Achilles.
After several visits to her beloved Greek island of Corfu, she decided to buy the house of Petros Vralias-Armenis, a prominent man from Corfu, who was about 10 km south of the capital.
She also bought the adjacent plots that reached the Ionian Sea, because she wanted to be able to leave from the ship to her own estate.
The huge house was built in the style of Pompeia. Like so many buildings there, it was drawn by an Italian architect.
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