Origin of the name liston

If you ask about the origin of the name Liston, the most probable is that you will receive so many answers as the number of people in love.

We looked in to it for you and ended up with the most probable version.

In the Venetian dialect “Lista” means “wide and straight road for a walk”thus and the Liston of Venice, the square of Saint Markou. At the same time it also means the “wooden bench” on which catalogs were inscribed and although that at the time that the Liston was constructed the serene democracy was part of the past many Venetian words and expressions survived in the Corfiot dialect, exactly as it is today.

So Liston means and the wide straight road and the catalog. According to one version the famous Liston of Corfu owes its name to both explanations since a catalog stood there with all the names of the noblemen, the Libro D’ Oro, who had the exclusive right to enjoy their walk on the specific road.

A practice that was abandoned, as many others, i.e. the Libro D’ Oro as a remnant of the past when the Ionian Islands were united with Greece.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME LISTON