See the old leper colony on Spinalonga Island
It’s just a 15-minute boat ride from the harbour to Spinalonga Island, a strange place with a long history. A flat coastal path around the island takes 2 hours to walk and along the way you’ll pass through the huge 16th-century Venetian fortress. You’ll also see the eerie abandoned leper colony – the inspiration for Victoria Hislop’s book The Island – which was inhabited until 1957.