Fodor's Expert Review Lighthouse Trail

Exit the Eastern Wall gate to reach Monemvasia Lighthouse, a clean-cut innocuous building erected in the late-19th-century. The beacon contains a small museum (free; open daily) about its history; it is also the start of a 2 km (1.2 mile) rocky path that skirts the northern rim of the island (follow the red trail marks) back to the car park next to To Kastro café. It's a testing scramble in parts, and one best avoided on a windy or wet day.