Authorities decided to optimize the building of Achillion Palace, giving the opportunity for locals and tourists to admire to its beauty. It is aimed to make the palace a descent monument of its time.
The Achillion Palace is ideally located in the picturesque village of Gastouri, Corfu. This magnificent Palace was built in 1890 exclusively for Elizabeth (Sissy), the then Empress of Austria. The palace used to serve as the summer retreat of the Empress. Unfortunately, Sissy the Empress passed away in a rather tragic manner when she was assassinated in 1898 in Geneva and the palace was deserted till the year 1907 when it was bought by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
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