Dukades: a village where time flows differently.

If Corfu is an island of light, then Doukades is its shadow. Soft, warm, subdued. The one you want to enter to exhale.

Where is it: The village is hidden in the green hills of northwest Corfu, not far from Paleokastritsa. There are no beaches here, no tourist streets, but a different Greece – the one that lives on the veranda, in shorts, with a cup of coffee.

Why come here:

– To walk along cobbled streets where houses are over a hundred years old, and every stone seems like a spoken word. – To look into a café without a name, where the owner pours the water himself, and there is always fresh bread. – To feel: here you don’t “have to look”, but you can just be.

What to see:

– The house of Aggelos Giardellis – a mansion with Venetian windows– The ancient church of St. Barnabas with painted icons– A small grocery store with homemade honey, limoncello and soap

My advice: If you take photos, find the doors. They are some of the most beautiful in Corfu: blue, ochre, green, peeling paint and flowers in tins.

A small discovery: Café Spiti tou Douka (Duke's House) - with lemonade that is squeezed in front of you, and a cat that decides who you sit at the table with.

💡 Idea: Take a break. Just sit on a bench. Write down in a notebook not the plan, but how the air smells. Nothing happens here - and this is a rare happiness.