Our Village

Sinarades is located in the middle Corfu area, just 13 km from Corfu Town.

The village is built near the sea on the hillsides, but is not visible from the sea. Its population today is 2,000 inhabitants, although many residents, forced by the miserable living conditions, left the village mainly in the 1950s, finding economic refuge in urban centres.

The name Sinarades was given after several modifications. It is possible that they were originally called Axinarades because of the many "tsapadors" (farmers) in the village, because they used axes (tsapias), or that the name came from the compound word syn+arato. According to a third view, which is the most prevalent, the word "Sinarades" came from the surname of the now unknown and extinct Byzantine family Sinaras or Synaras (still preserved as a Christian baptismal name in Armenia, but there is also Agia Sinara in the United Kingdom), since most villages of Corfu have names derived from family surnames l. e.g. Argyros = Argyrades, Armenis = Armenades, Vitalis = Vitalades, Kyprianos = Kyprianades, Kavvadas = Kavvadades, Pikoulas = Pikoulatika, Kardamis = Kardamatika, Sarakinos = Sarakinatika, Komianos = Komianata, Makris = Makrata. etc. The history of the village starts from the Byzantine years. It is believed that the first inhabitants of the village came from Southern Italy. In 1669 residents from Crete arrived on the island of Corfu and some of them brought their families and settled in the village. Today there are still surnames such as Vasilakis, Doukakis etc. with the suffix -akis, which reveal their Cretan origin.