Castles & monuments · Corfu · ★★★☆☆
A Byzantine castle of the early 13th century on a low hill in the south-west: octagonal walls with eight two-storey towers, standing among olive groves near the Korission lagoon. A ruin, quick to see on the way south.
It lies between Agios Matthaios and Mesongi, and a car park is mapped about 140 m away. No ticket or opening hours are listed for it. Inside the walls only the remains of a lime kiln are left, with traces of wall paintings on the upper floor of the tower south-west of the gate, probably once a chapel. It was abandoned in 1386, when the Venetians took Corfu. Chalikounas, on the sand bar between the lagoon and the sea, is 3.6 km away for a swim.