Corinth Canal Tours & Tickets

The Corinth Canal cuts through 6.3 kilometres of rock and connects the Aegean Sea to the Ionian Sea, saving ships a 400-kilometre detour around the Peloponnese.

French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, who built the Suez Canal, initially planned the Corinth Canal in the 1880s before Greek engineer Isidor Miliadis and his team completed it in 1893.

The canal's walls rise nearly 80 metres high, making transits through the narrow waterway a dramatic and popular viewing experience for spectators on the bridges above.

Ancient Greeks and Romans dreamed of cutting through the isthmus for over 2,000 years—Emperor Nero even attempted it with slave labour in 67 AD, but the project was abandoned.

The canal handles around 11,000 transits annually, though modern mega-ships often cannot fit through due to its 24.6-metre width, and instead sail around Cape Horn.