Corfu Town's greatest asset — a UNESCO maze of Venetian kantounia, wells and arcades — costs nothing to walk. Add €1.70 blue buses, a covered municipal market and bakery lunches under €4, and three days here run cheaper than one on Mykonos.
The Old Town's oldest quarter, where six-storey Venetian tenements lean over kantounia barely two metres wide. Begin at Kremasti Square and its 17th-century marble wellhead, then follow the laundry lines uphill — no ticket, no gate, no closing time.
Corfu's patron saint lies in a silver reliquary inside the island's tallest campanile, red-domed and visible from every alley. Entry is free with only a donation box; open roughly 07:00–20:00. Locals queue to kiss the casket — join them or sit at the back.
The Venetians' 1576 second citadel above the market, far emptier than its famous neighbour. Bastion tunnels, a carved lion of St Mark over the gate, and rampart views across the commercial port to Vidos island. Open 08:00–20:00 in summer.
A tiny municipal swimming cove wedged between the Old Fortress and the Palace of St Michael and St George, reached through a stone gateway off the seafront path. Concrete platforms, clear water and the cheapest sunset in town — no entry fee.
The covered agora dug in below the New Fortress walls: fishmongers gutting the morning catch, barrels of olives, women selling wild horta and kumquats. The cheapest picnic supplies on the island — bread, feta, tomatoes and fruit for well under €8.
Known to everyone as Babis, this family kitchen on Nikiforou Theotoki serves pastitsada, sofrito and stifado from a handwritten menu. Mains hover around €8–10, salads €4, and the house wine arrives in a dented tin jug rather than a bottle.
A wood-shelved bakery doing spinach pies, olive bread and syrup-soaked walnut cake to take away. Pair it with the counters along Agiou Vasileiou and Guilford for a self-guided Old Town bakery crawl that stays under €5 a head.
The workaday square where Corfiots actually eat: gyros wraps around €3.50, souvlaki sticks, cheap bakeries and the blue-bus terminal on one side. No arcades, no sea view, no tourist mark-up — just the cheapest hot dinner in the town limits.
Kaiser Wilhelm II's stone viewing platform above Pelekas village, roughly 270m up with a 360° sweep from the west-coast bays to the Albanian mountains. Blue bus 11 from San Rocco costs €1.70 and drops you a ten-minute climb below the summit.
A wide sand-and-shingle bay below the village, reached by a 25-minute walk down through olive terraces. The southern end past the hotel frontage is unorganised, so you can spread a towel on the sand instead of paying the €10 sunbed-and-umbrella rate.
The wooded 1828 British villa estate where Prince Philip was born. The grounds — Doric temple ruins, cypress avenues and two sheltered coves down the steps — are free to walk; only the villa museum charges admission. Gates open 08:00–20:00.
The postcard view: the white Vlacherna monastery on its causeway with Pontikonisi behind, and planes skimming overhead into the runway across the lagoon. The concrete walkway out to the chapel costs nothing and faces west for sunset.