Vidos Island is located just across from Corfu's old port and can be accessed easily via a taxi boat. There is plenty of fauna and fauna on the island at the right time of year and is a protected nature reserve. During the tourist season, it is a nice place to go for a walk and forget about the world for a while. There are beaches you can swim from and it takes about 90 minutes to walk around the whole island following the paths. There is a small café available and toilets here. You will definitely find that it is a great place to visit for the day. Take some food and drink with you and please take all your rubbish off the items when you leave.
The island has significant historical interests. During the Peloponnesian war between 431 and 404 BC, the island was used as a prison. During the Venetian rule and used again as a prison, according to legend, it was said that a tunnel runs underground from the old fortress to the island. The remains of a very strong fortification although in ruins still remain on the far side of the island, constructed by the French and later destroyed by the British, and was pivotal during The siege of Corfu between October 1798 and March 1799.
During the first world war, the island saw the Serbian army suffer a great loss of life, as thousands of soldiers starved and died from the plague. There is a mausoleum located on the island when walking from the small port to the right. Looking from the mausoleum out to sea is an area known as the blue grave as the many soldiers were thrown into the sea as there was no space to bury them. Each year in mid-September the losses are commemorated. This area MUST NOT be sued to swim in.
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 on the side columns 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.
The island has significant historical interests. During the Peloponnesian war between 431 and 404 BC, the island was used as a prison. During the Venetian rule and used again as a prison, according to legend, it was said that a tunnel runs underground from the old fortress to the island. The remains of a very strong fortification although in ruins still remain on the far side of the island, constructed by the French and later destroyed by the British, and was pivotal during The siege of Corfu between October 1798 and March 1799.
During the first world war, the island saw the Serbian army suffer a great loss of life, as thousands of soldiers starved and died from the plague. There is a mausoleum located on the island when walking from the small port to the right. Looking from the mausoleum out to sea is an area known as the blue grave as the many soldiers were thrown into the sea as there was no space to bury them. Each year in mid-September the losses are commemorated. This area MUST NOT be sued to swim in.
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 on the side columns 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.