Vido Island

The island of Vidos and the sea around the island is a large tomb where Serbian soldiers who died after arriving in Corfu in 1916, after the Albanian Golgotha, rest. In 1938, a mausoleum was built for these, mostly very young soldiers, by order of King Alexander, who went through Golgotha ​​with that army and came to Corfu. In the memorial ossuary, the cassettes contain the bones of 1232 soldiers, whose identities were known, and small plaques with names and surnames were placed for each, and the bones of about 1532 soldiers, whose identities were unknown, were placed in the side domes of the mausoleum. Immediately above the mausoleum is a monument known as the Stone Cross, which is actually the first monument erected to the deceased Serbian soldiers on the island of Vidos. This Stone Cross was also erected by order of King Alexander, in 1922. Most of the bones still rest on the bottom of the sea where their bodies were laid due to the lack of burial places on the island, so that part of the sea is still called the Blue Tomb, according to the poet Milutin Bojić, who also arrived in Corfu as a soldier. dedicated the verses to the deceased comrades.