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Corfu Fortresses, Old Town and Museums Walk

Corfu Fortresses, Old Town and Museums Walk

Corfu · Greece

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Corfu’s historic centre, beginning with the Old Fortress and continuing past the Sea Tower, galleries, churches and museums. You will see the city’s Venetian-era fortifications, public squares and richly layered collections, including the Museum of Asian Art and the Archaeological Museum. The route ends at the New Fortress, giving you a focused view of Corfu’s defensive landmarks alongside its cultural heart. Allow time to pause at each stop and notice how the buildings, streets and collections connect the island’s past.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Old Fortress

    Old Fortress

    A Venetian fortress that survived three Ottoman sieges, then witnessed Corfu’s darkest imprisonment.

  2. Old Fortress

    Old Fortress

    A fortress reshaped by fifteen centuries of defence and three Ottoman sieges

  3. Sea Tower

    Sea Tower

    Sea Tower is an attraction in Corfu, Greece.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Municipal Gallery of Corfu

    Municipal Gallery of Corfu

    The Municipal Gallery of Corfu is a museum in Corfu, Greece.

  6. Corfu Museum of Asian Art

    Corfu Museum of Asian Art

    A museum in Corfu, Greece.

  7. Saint Spyridon

    Saint Spyridon

    A Corfiot church built around a relic that travelled through empires, sieges, and one determined family.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.