Gardiki Castle, Corfu

Southern Corfu Municipality, Greece

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.

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Gardiki Castle is a 13th-century Byzantine fortress on the southwestern coast of Corfu, Greece, and the sole surviving medieval castle in the island's southern region. Built by a ruler of the Despotate of Epirus, it formed one point of a defensive triangle that once protected Corfu alongside Kassiopi Castle to the northeast and Angelokastro to the northwest, before the Venetian occupation began in 1401. Today it stands as an archaeological site, a testament to the island's medieval defensive strategy.