The Durrells is a magnificent TV series on air since 2017, produced by Sid Gentle Films and Masterpiece and which made the whole world discover the beauties of a Corfu of the past, when there were still no holiday villages, discos and luxurious clubs on the beaches of the island.
The series is in fact set starting from 1935, when an entire family with British origins decides to change their lives and move to Corfu. The progenitor of the Durrells, however, died during the war, so Louisa, the mother, has to face a series of events that take place between the tragedy and the comedy together with her children and the inhabitants of the island, still unaccustomed to foreigners.
Did you know the Durrells really existed? The Durrells, indeed, is the television reinterpretation of the trilogy of autobiographical books "My Family and Other Animals Birds", "Beasts, and Relatives" and "The Garden of the Gods" written by the real Gerald Durrell, a British naturalist, zoologist and explorer who lived in Corfu with his family between 1935 and 1939. Compared to the book and fiction, however, the eldest son had already moved to Corfu with his wife a few years earlier and was then joined from his family.
The house where the daily life scenes of the Durrells are filmed has become a tourist spot and is known as the "White House" of the Bay. It still exists and is super requested to stay!
The locations on the island where the series was filmed are mainly Kalami, Agni Beach, Corfu Town and Danilia, all located in the northern part of Corfu.
If you want to spend a stay in the same locations as the Durells, take a look at our Villas in Corfu as Villa di Giovanni!
CORFU
Corfu is the second largest island of the Ionian archipelago after Kefalonia. The island is known for its lively nightlife and its dream beaches, which frame the crystal clear water of the Ionian Sea. Few people know that it was under Venetian, French and English rule, before the island became part of Greece in 1864 and therefore hosts architectural examples attributable to each of its governments, making it a destination suitable for all types of travelers!
Its villages and its nature are certainly destinations to go to as an alternative to the aforementioned paradisiacal beaches.
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