Castles & monuments · Corfu · ★★★★★
A 13th-century Byzantine castle on a 305 m crag above the west coast, which held out against the Ottoman sieges: a short, steep climb from the car park, past a chapel in a cave, for the wildest view on the island. Closed shoes; little shade.
Go in the cooler hours of the day and take water. Parking is about 140 m from the castle, and the Corfu Paths route CC14A passes close by. Allow about an hour. Paleokastritsa Monastery, Agios Spiridon beach and Gaidouromonopati, the old donkey path, are each about 1.6 km away, so pair it with any of them.