c1840 View of Corfu & Manduchio [Mandouki], from Mount Olivet:  This is one ofthemost splendid panoramic views in the tour of the islands.  It comprehends every description of object that can contribute to fill up a great prospect, and is composed in one of nature's happiest manners.  Having enjoyed this general view, the scenery may be taken in detail, and first Paleocastrizza is to be sought; it is an  ancient fortress, strongly situated on a cliff that overhangs the sea, and now occupied by monks and military.  The position is singularly beautiful and grand, and the ride thither, from Corfu, sixteen miles, leads through some of the most varied, lovely, and agreeable scenery in Europe.  The Pass of Pantaleone, near the intersection of the two mountain-chains that quarter out the island, commands the northern division of Corfu: while the Pass of Garouni overlooks the southern portion so completely, that, having visited these stations, the topography of the island is immediately understood, and the character of Corfiote scenery developed; but the beautiful details are still to be unfolded by many, very many visits to glen, wood, rock, and promontory.

The city of Corfu stands on a triangular-shaped promontory, sloping to the north-west, having its base attached to the island, and its vertex pointing to the snowcapped mountains of Albania, with a retiring bay on either side.  At the very apex of the triangle stands the citadel, distinguished by its two turreted eminences, " the lofty citadels ~ of the Phaeacians."  The promontory was originally attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, but is now totally separated for purposes of defence, by a ditch eighty yards in breadth, forty in depth, and one hundred and fifty in length. The sea enters at the northern end, and flows up to a curtain wall on the south.  Within the citadel, which is five hundred and forty feet in circumference, are the old palace, two Greek churches, artillery stores, barracks, residences of different government officers, and an armoury, now converted into an English chapel.