Mitsis Roda Beach Resort e SPA Corfu

The Mitsis Roda Beach Resort & Spa overlooks the tranquil Roda Bay on Corfu's north-eastern shoreline. This is an All Inclusive resort making a luxury family holiday even more affordable. The Mitsis Roda Beach Resort & Spa is set amidst 25-acres of colourful gardens that lead down to the sandy beach and the turquoise Ionian Sea. The magnificent location is complemented by good food and entertainment and bright and spacious guest accommodation. The hotel has also added a beach bar, an Italian and a Chinese restaurant. Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. The island is steeped in history and it is perennially connected to the history of Greece starting from Greek mythology. Appropriately enough, Corfu being an island, its name is connected to two powerful water symbols: Poseidon, god of the sea and "Asopos", an important Greek mainland river. According to the myth, Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph "Korkyra", daughter of "Asopos" and the river nymph "Metope", and abducted her, as was the custom among gods of that era - Zeus himself was a serial offender. Poseidon brought her to the hitherto unnamed island and, being in marital bliss, offered her name to the place. Together they had a child they called "Phaiax" after whom the inhabitants of the island were named: "Phaiakes", which was then transliterated via Latin to "Phaeacians". This myth, with its themes of romance between a powerful god and a beautiful nymph, with a trace of adventure, centred around the element of water, is suggestive of the special ambience of the place. The island's history is full of battles and conquests, indicative of Corfu's turbulent position in a historical vortex that lasted until modern times, when after the unification with modern Greece in 1864 the history of the island became one with the mainland's, with no more foreign intervention. The legacy of these struggles remains in the form of two castles that enclose the city. It is the only city in Greece to be surrounded by castles this way and as a result has officially been declared as a Kastropolis (Castle city) by the Greek Government.