Corfu at night, Greece Feb 8, 2026

Corfu at night, Greece

The island of Corfu, Greece, meets you at night with a quiet kind of intensity: stone facades catching warm lamplight, fortress walls rising in sharp outline, and narrow lanes unfolding like a lived-in labyrinth. The Old Town doesn"t just look historic—it feels inhabited, shaped by centuries of shifting cultures and the slow rhythm of island life after dark.

© whitewizzard/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Feb 8, 2018The Cordillera de la Sal in the Cordillera Domeyko Range of Chile
Feb 8, 2019A winter light show
Feb 8, 2020Lanterns alight in Pingxi
Feb 8, 2021A hero for the 21st century
Feb 8, 2022Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Feb 8, 2023Uredd Rest Area, Norway
Feb 8, 2024Mount Hood, Oregon
Feb 8, 2025Medieval towers in Mestia, Upper Svaneti, Georgia

More Desktop Wallpapers:

May 24, 2022European Day of Parks
Sep 12, 2023North Sea at sunset, Norddorf, Germany
Jun 13, 2021Bear watching in the Finnish forest
Nov 14, 2025Manatee Awareness Month
Feb 19, 2023Humpback whales in Maui, Hawaii
Mar 31, 2026Paradise Cave, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam
Jan 30, 2019Embracing the cold
Aug 6, 2022San Francisco Bay salt flats
Mar 31, 2024Happy Easter!
Mar 2, 2020And to think that I saw it in Cappadocia
Dec 26, 2021Happy Boxing Day!
Oct 7, 2022Berlin Festival of Lights
Jun 14, 2024Flag Day
Feb 3, 2022Corjuem Fort in Goa, India
Mar 27, 2022World Theatre Day
Mar 2, 2023Negratín Reservoir, Granada, Spain
Jun 15, 2022Nature Photography Day
Nov 13, 2021Ronda, Spain
Mar 1, 2022Women s History Month
Jan 5, 2024International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Harbin, China
Mar 2, 2022Mount Rainier National Park
Mar 31, 2023Steyr River, Austria
Feb 19, 2018Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, DC
Jan 12, 2019Sailing across the ice
Jun 9, 2021Ring of fire
Mar 6, 2022Great cormorants
Mar 29, 2022Northern coast of Colombia
Sep 30, 2021Global commerce in motion
Oct 2, 2025Oxbow Bend on the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Aug 22, 2022Burrowing owls