Corfu in 4 days

Narrow lanes called kantounia wind between ochre façades, and the French-built Liston arcades face the Spianada and its British cricket pitch, still in use.

A Venetian citadel on a promontory cut off by a 16th-century moat, with an 1840 British church built like a Greek temple.

The site of ancient Corcyra, near Mon Repos where Prince Philip was born, facing the white Vlacherna monastery and Mouse Island with its Byzantine chapel.

The palace Empress Elisabeth of Austria built from 1889 to 1891 in honour of Achilles, bought after her murder by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

The island's highest point at 906 metres, reached by a narrow road, with a monastery and views to Albania and, on clear days, Italy.

Soft sandstone cliffs worn into channels, arches and tunnels you can swim through; legend says couples who swim the narrowest one stay together.

A 13th-century Byzantine fortress on a 305-metre rock above Paleokastritsa, which guarded the west coast and sheltered the surrounding villages.

Six green coves below cliffs of cypress and olive, and on the headland a monastery founded in 1225 with a gilded iconostasis and icon museum.