Villages · Corfu · ★★★★☆
A fishing harbour on the island's north-east tip, across the strait from Albania, with the walls of a Byzantine castle on the headland above. Nero, by Suetonius's account, sang at the altar of its temple of Zeus Kassios as he arrived in Greece.
Green buses (route A4) take about an hour and a quarter from Corfu Town and stop about 130 m from the centre; the nearest mapped car park is about 100 m away. The castle is about 300 m from the centre, up past the church of the Panagia Kassopitra, which tradition sets on the temple's site. It is dated to the late 12th century and was left empty after the Ottoman raids of 1537 and 1571; no buildings survive inside its walls, only trees and undergrowth. For a swim, Bataria beach is about 500 m away and Avlaki 2 km.