Trip with the Train

Often enough we considered to go by the train which stands in the harbour promenade and takes three times per day the precipitous way to Anthousia and further up on "Castle of Ali pasha" under the tyres. Instead of the steam boiler the traction engine has inserted a 4,300-ccm engine .
This time we get!

With much amusing cling-a-ling it goes with 25 km/h uphill the curves, in each case 20 tourists in one of both cars. On top on the castle ruins Christina offers us to follow her if we want to hear the history of the castle.

Once the whole environs were already 300 years firmly in Turkish hand, only one small town called Parga (at that time under English rule) stood firm to the Muslims. Ali pasha came the idea to build a small castle on a hill above Pargas on 500 ms over the sea and realized the project with many Greek slaves in a time of 2 1/2 years.

The castle of Parga could be fired by this castle, but was not able to fire back. The Englishmen sold Parga to Ali pasha. The local population of the town fled from Turk to Corfu where they remained till 90 years, as Greece was released from the Turkish rule.

Up to the branching to the castle a good road leads up (even if it there and there straight because of slip reorganizes). On the castle mountain the roadway winds itself up in partly close and very steep zigzags. There is above a parking lot and a drinks stand.

All in all, it was a nice, peaceful excursion which lasted two hours and which offered in each case 25-minute time to visit the castle ruins and the place Anthousia.

Good footwear also helps on these ruins, there to reach the view plateau a very precipitous, broken and weather-beaten stair is to be scaled!