Adele D. Oliver


Community Manager, Lotusland, Canada

The Achilleion in Corfu (Sissi's Palace)

The Achilleion is a palace built in Gastouri, Corfu by Empress (German: Kaiserin) of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi). Elisabeth was a woman obsessed with beauty, and very powerful, but tragically vulnerable since the loss of her only son, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in the Mayerling Incident in 1889. A year later in 1890, she built a summer palace about ten kilometres to the south of the city of Corfu. The palace was designed with the mythical hero Achilles as its central theme. Corfu was Elizabeth's favourite vacation place and she built the palace because she admired Greece and its language and culture. Achilleion's location provides a panoramic view of Corfu city to the north, and across the whole southern part of the island.

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Dossier Greece, Cyprus
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APN Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Objectif Unknown 6-72mm
Ouverture 4
Temps de pose 1/1600
Focale 6.0 mm
ISO 100