Old Fortress of Corfu Tickets

Your Experience

Explore Corfu's Old Fortress and Spianada on a self-guided visit with flexible time in the historic areas.

Getting started

Enter Corfu's Old Fortress using your ticket and proceed through the main entrance for your self-guided visit. Once your ticket is checked, continue at your own pace into the fortress complex. From here, you set your route for self-guided exploration without a guide or organized group.

What to expect

Old Fortress

This experience focuses on the Old Fortress of Corfu, historically one of the strongest defensive systems in the Ionian Sea. You move through the fortified headland at your own pace, choosing how long to spend at each area during your self-guided exploration.

Features

• Your ticket gives you access to the Old Fortress, so you can explore at your own pace during your visit.
• Crossing the bridge over the defensive moat and passing through the monumental gateway, you step inside a layered military complex of walls, bastions, passages, and historic buildings.
• Around the site you encounter inscriptions, coats of arms, and cannons, and you can look for the winged lions of Saint Mark, emblem of the Venetian Republic that once ruled Corfu.
• Two rocky peaks inside the fortress can be climbed, rewarding you with views over the Ionian Sea and the old town that help you understand why this position was so strategically important.

Spianada

After your time inside the fortress, you emerge toward the Spianada, Corfu's vast open esplanade and one of the city's most recognizable public spaces. This area forms a contrast to the fortified environment you have just explored.

Features

• Self-guided exploration of the fortress and Spianada lets you decide how to divide your time between the military site and this civic gathering space.
• As you continue to the Spianada, you experience the contrast between the Old Fortress's defensive power and the open layout of the square, with room to walk, sit, or observe daily life.
• Free time in the historic areas includes the Spianada, where you can notice the British-era cricket tradition that has left its mark on this central esplanade.

Highlights

• Take in Corfu's Old Fortress and Spianada in one self-paced visit, from stone ramparts to the broad esplanade where city life unfolds.
• On arrival, show your ticket at the Old Fortress entrance, cross the bridge over the moat, then step through the gateway to start your visit.
• Explore the fortress walls, bastions, passages, buildings, coats of arms, and cannons, then wander freely through Spianada and lanes around it.
• Climb the two peaks for views over the Ionian Sea and old town, spot winged lions of Saint Mark, and see the cricket field below too.