Lazareto Island - BY LAW YOU CAN NOT VISIT THIS ISLAND

Lazaretto is a small island facing Kontokali, a monastery was built on it during the Venetian occupation, Then turned into a quarantine station, Lazaretto as is the Italian name for these small islands that were situated in the ports of all the Venetian acquisitions in the Mediterranean. Their purpose was to host ships when they were in quarantine, for 40 days in order to avoid the contamination of epidemics to the locals.
Lazaretto is a small island facing Kontokali, a monastery was built on it during the Venetian occupation, Then turned into a quarantine station, Lazaretto as is the Italian name for these small islands that were situated in the ports of all the Venetian acquisitions in the Mediterranean. Their purpose was to host ships when they were in quarantine, for 40 days in order to avoid the contamination of epidemics to the locals.

Also featured in My Family and Other Animals as it is where Margot rows to in the Bootlebumtrinket (Gerry's little boat) when she is nursing a broken heart. Unfortunately she overstays, gets sunburned and has to row back in a storm!

During World War II, the island was turned into a concentration camp for prisoners of the National Resistance. During these times it is written that an estimated that a minimum of 118 prisoners on death row of the prisons of Corfu were executed. The majority of them were political prisoners, communists. Executed by a firing squad, the bodies of the prisoners were buried in mass, anonymous graves.

Today the island is declared as a historical place where memorials and events of reconciliation take place.