Lazareto

The small island of Lazareto lies off the eastern coast of Corfu and can be spotted from the road that runs from Corfu Town to Kondokali.

Covering just over 17 hectares, Lazareto sits 3 kilometres northeast of the island’s capital. During the sixteenth century, under Venetian rule, a church was first constructed on the islet, followed by a leper hospital, from which it takes its name.

Used as a military hospital during the French occupation in the late eighteenth century, the island returned to operating as a leper colony in 1814 under British rule. Today, the island is considered a national monument in memory of the partisans killed during the Second World War.

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