Benitses today
Today, Benitses is still developing, trying to attract more discerning visitors by upgrading the infrastructure whilst being careful to preserve the traditional look that it has never lost.
Tourism remains the main source of income for residents, but a lot of efforts are being made to keep improving the infrastructure to attract an increasing number of visitors.
The current priority is to complete the harbor and the new yachting marina so that it will start to bring income to the village.
Other important projects, such as a large artificial beach and the paving of internal roads, are planned, but unfortunately, due to the present economic crisis, we are experiencing that these plans are currently on hold and remain a dream.
Despite the current economic problems, those residents who have the skills and ideas feel obliged to strive to implement the plans and achieve as much as possible.
We must not sit back because of the crisis but keep trying for a better future, because even if it happens that Europe does not exist in the form we know it, Greece, Corfu, and Benitses will still be here, it is our home and we must keep it vital and alive.
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We found an old photo of Benitses taken in 1940, taken from almost the same position as the current picture, so we thought it was useful to put them together to see firsthand the huge changes that time has brought.
We see the differences, the current picture is taken from a point about 50 feet ahead and a little more left from this of 1940, that is the only difference.
The mountains are the same, but the coastline has inevitably been developed. The truth is that the picture of 1940 shows a much more pastoral scene …. those electricity wires of today look terrible anyway…
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