The ancient city of Corfu, located at a distance of 4 km. south of today's historical Center, it extended approximately to the center of today's Kanoni peninsula, surrounded to the SW by the Halikiopoulos lagoon and to the NE by the gulf of Garitsa, where its two ancient ports, the Yllaiko port and
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Outside the northern wall of the city, northwest of the port of Alkinou, in the present-day area of Garitsa, was the city's cemetery. In ancient times, there was an extensive, sandy beach in this area. The cemetery was used throughout the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods, while during
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To the east of the Yllai harbor was located the ceramic workshop of the city that supplied the internal and external markets. Spanning from the Archaic to the Roman period, this workshop included two-story furnaces and all ancillary areas for the production of a variety of products. The main type of
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The coins of ancient Corfu depict its history as well as the commercial relations it had developed with other regions. At the end of the 6th c. BC Corfu, gaining its independence from the Metropolis - Corinth, established its own mint and minted its own coins, which shows that at that particular
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