About Vlacherena

Also in the Bay of Kanoni is Vlacherna Monastery. The Vlacherna Womens Monastery was founded many centuries ago on the little rocky tip of the Kanoni peninsula. The present chapel was built in 1685 and the oldest gravestone dates from 1785. When Corfu was under the rule of the Democratic French it belonged to the family of the Greek composer N C Mantzaros, the composer of the Greek National Anthem.