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Corfu itinerary

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    Corfu Old Town (UNESCO)

    Corfu Old Town has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2007, recognising the only surviving example of a complete Venetian fortified town in the Mediterranean. Read the full UNESCO criteria at the Old…

    Address
    Old Town, Corfu 491 00, Greece
    Nearest transit
    Corfu Town centre, 5 min walk from San Rocco Square
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    Old Fortress of Corfu (Palaio Frourio)

    The Old Fortress is the dramatic twin-peaked rock fortress on the eastern tip of Corfu Old Town, separated from the city by a Venetian-era moat called the Contrafossa. Built initially as a Byzantine fortification and…

    Address
    Old Fortress, Corfu 491 00, Greece
    Nearest transit
    Corfu Town centre, 8 min walk east via Spianada Square
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    Achilleion Palace (Empress Sissi)

    Achilleion Palace was built between 1889 and 1891 as the summer retreat of Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, known as Sissi, after the death of her son Crown Prince Rudolf. Designed by Italian architect Raffaele Caritto in…

    Address
    Achilleion Palace, Gastouri 490 84, Corfu, Greece
    Nearest transit
    KTEL green bus 10 from San Rocco Square (1.80 EUR, 30 min, every 30 min)
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    Paleokastritsa (Beaches and Monastery)

    Paleokastritsa is a horseshoe-shaped resort village on the west coast where six small bays cut into pine-covered cliffs to make some of the most photographed coves in the Ionian. The 13th-century Theotokos Monastery of…

    Address
    Paleokastritsa, Corfu 490 83, Greece
    Nearest transit
    KTEL green bus from San Rocco Square (3 EUR, 1 hr, 7 daily in summer)
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    Cape Drastis Cliffs

    Cape Drastis is the wild north-western tip of Corfu, where strange chalk-white cliffs and stratified rock fingers drop into deep turquoise water. The cape is the geological opposite of the green inland: erosion has cut…

    Address
    Cape Drastis, Peroulades 490 81, Corfu, Greece
    Nearest transit
    Limited service - KTEL bus to Sidari (3.50 EUR, 1 hr 30 min) then 6 km taxi
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    Mount Pantokrator

    Mount Pantokrator is the highest point on Corfu at 906 m, with a 14th century monastery on the summit and a 360-degree view that on clear mornings stretches across to the Albanian Acrocorinth peaks and south to Paxos…

    Address
    Mount Pantokrator, Strinilas 490 81, Corfu, Greece
    Nearest transit
    No bus service - rental car or organised tour from Corfu Town required
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    Canal d'Amour Sidari

    Canal d'Amour is a series of narrow sandstone channels just west of Sidari on the north coast, where wave erosion over thousands of years has cut deep blue passages between honey-coloured cliffs. Local legend says…

    Address
    Canal d'Amour, Sidari 491 00, Corfu, Greece
    Nearest transit
    KTEL green bus to Sidari (3.50 EUR, 1 hr 30 min, 6 daily in summer)
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    New Fortress (Neo Frourio)

    The New Fortress is the larger of Corfu Town's two Venetian forts, built between 1572 and 1645 on the rocky hill of Saint Mark to defend the western approach to the city. Despite the name it is older than the…

    Address
    New Fortress, Solomou, Corfu 491 00, Greece
    Nearest transit
    Corfu Town centre, 10 min walk west from Spianada Square
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    Liston Arcade and Spianada Square

    Liston is the elegant arcade of seven-bay neoclassical buildings built between 1807 and 1814 by French engineer Mathieu de Lesseps under Napoleon's brief occupation. The colonnaded ground floor is now a row of cafes…

    Address
    Liston, Corfu 491 00, Greece
    Nearest transit
    Corfu Town centre, 5 min walk east from San Rocco Square
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    Vidos Island Day Trip

    Vidos is a small uninhabited island just 1 km from the Corfu Old Port, often overlooked even by Corfiots. The 12-minute ferry ride costs 5 EUR return. Once on the island, a 4 km circular walking trail loops past pine…

    Address
    Vidos Island, Corfu 491 00, Greece
    Nearest transit
    Vidos ferry from Old Port (5 EUR return, 12 min, every 30 min in summer)

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