EASTER AT CORFU IMPERIAL

Corfu’s Easter traditions are among the most distinctive in Greece, and at Corfu Imperial, the season is lived from the inside. A boat transfer to Corfu Town for the Good Friday Epitaphios, the spectacle of Botides on Holy Saturday morning, the string quintet drifting through the hotel lounges in the evening — each day of the Holy Week carries its own atmosphere, its own rhythm, and its own sense of occasion.

Corfu has its own culinary language, and Easter brings out the best of it. Lenten dishes are served à la carte throughout Holy Week, while Holy Saturday supper introduces the traditional Corfiot magiritsa – tsilihourda. Easter Sunday unfolds around a generous celebratory lunch with local delicacies, crimson-dyed eggs and lamb roasted on the hotel islet.

Set on the private Kommeno Peninsula, Corfu Imperial offers a backdrop that few resorts can match. The Philharmonic parade through the resort on Easter Sunday morning, the lamb roasting on the hotel islet, the string quintet in the lounges as the sun sets over the bay — the celebration here has a quality that is both deeply Corfiot and entirely its own.

At Corfu Imperial, children stay, dine and play completely free. Through Holy Week, Grecoland comes alive with Easter egg dyeing, arts and crafts, nature walks through the gardens and endless activities that keep younger guests as happily absorbed as the rest of the family.