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 CORFU
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The
grace and the elegance of Corfu are the result of the different
civilizations that
one after the others are followed
and of the natural beauties . In this cosmopolitan island it is
possible to reconcile the rest with the fun and with an intense
nighttimes life dues to the numerous scattered places anywhere. Corfu is a long strip of
horizontal land of 600 square kilometres and is the most northern
of the Ionian islands ; its coast is variegated with an alternating
of sandy lines and bluffs . Corfu seems to live among two
worlds: one is the space of the calm and the escape, the other one is
that of the fun and of the continuous party that passes through
endless beaches and blue waters, but also confectioneries, cafe,
discos and Casino.
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SAYADA
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PLATARIA
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SYVOTA e MOURTOS
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The famous area of the three " islands ", with a lot of bays and
a small agreeable port
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PARGA:
Beautiful and picturesque city on the continental coast. His
traditional houses give the impression of an island. To the summit of
the adjacent hill, wound in the green, you can visit an ancient
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The near beach of Valtos is one of the most beautiful of Greece |
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PREVEZA:
Village on the sea, in the middle of the Ionian sea, was founded by
the king Pirro in the 290 a.c.
At
East of the port it is possible to see the peninsula of Azio
(ACTION), where the fleet of Queen CLEOPATRA and ANTONIO encountered
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emperor Octavian fleet which, after his victory , he founded a new
town called NICOPOLIS (town of the victory). The ruins can be visited
around 7 Km north distance from the old city of PREVEZA. In the city
there is a lot of excellent taverns with traditional foods and fresh
fish that can be also bayed on the local market |
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PAXI-Paxos & ANTIPAXOS
PAXI:
The smallest of the big ionic islands. It feels as a miniature
world. LAKKA is a traditional village inside a protected bay, covered
of trees of olives and cypresses.
ANTIPAXOI:
a
smaller island in the southern side of PAXI, rich of olive
trees and grapes
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LEFKADA
Calm and picturesque town that rises to the entry of the homonym
channel. Some of the houses in wood are older than 300 years. Breeding
of fish among the channel and the open sea.
NYDRI
Small but cosmopolitan village placed to the entry of a beautiful bay.
Two
miles East, there is the island of SCORPIOS that belongs to the
family of the Greek ONASSIS .
NYDRI is full of restaurants, taverns, night clubs. According
to the German archaeologist DORPFELD, was near Nidri, where Ulysses
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SKORPIOS
, ATOKOS, KALAMOS,
MEGANISSI
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ATOKOS:
The desert island very known to the nautical diportistis with his bay
"of the house."
Beautiful beaches and impressive coasts.
KALAMOS:
The Homeric island of " KARNOS ". Beautiful beaches along the east
coast.
The village as an amphitheatre is delicious and calm .
MEGANISSI:
The ancient " TAFIA ". The peoples at that times were smugglers and
pirates. Today they are ship owners, sailors and industrial managers
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ITHAKI
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The smallest
island (after Paxi) of the
ionian Islands (96 sq. km. - 37sq miles; pop 3
648) is composed of two mountains joined by an isthmus.
The steep west coast contrasts with the eastern shoreline which is
less stark and more welcoming.
Ithaca is famous as the island of
Odysseus and corresponds closely to the descriptions in
Homer's Odyssey. Schliemann
began his archaeological career on Ithaca in
1860 by digging on what he judged to be the sites described in the
Odyssey.
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Subsequent research by scholars and excavations carried out in 1930 by
the British School at Athens
have confirmed the Homeric story and
identified the places where Odysseus, his
father Laertes, his wife Penelope
and their son Telemachos lived |
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When
Byron visited the island in August 1823 (commemorative
plaque in Vathi) he found it so beautiful that
he considered buying it and living there permanently.
Ithaki was inhabited by the end of the 3rd
millennium B.C. The interest, though, of the archaeologists is focused in the period
when the king of the island was Odysseus at
around the 12th century B.C. It was then when the Greek
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White
beaches of thin sand spaced by bluffs peaking on the sea and after
a warm and transparent sea: this is
Cephalonia the greatest island of the Ionian. One thing is sure : in
this great heaven is impossible to self annoy . Long walks can be
taken in the luxuriant nature of the hinterland.
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The enter is in the
small port Fiskardo attractive and characteristic island village
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It
is not to lose the appointment with the numerous waterfront taverns
offering fresh fish or lobsters just fished.
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Cephalonia is also
famous for his deep gulfs, his caves and, above all for his bluffs on the sea, with a great effect. |
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The beaches more frequented are
;in the west side, while the oriental part is proper for the
healthy relax in worth of many coves of thin sand. |
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ZAKINTHOS
Zakinthos
is the most southern of all the islands of the Ionian sea. Its ace in
the sleeve is the sea, famous for the clean and the crystalline
colour. This island offers a lot of possibilities of fun: it is
possible to walk among the pines of the numerous mountains or to
admire the panorama from one of the precipices or to stay
to drink the famous OZO,
made with almonds
, in the characteristic coffees of the island.
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The beaches are so many and almost exclusively of a thin and golded
sand. The more frequented are near the capital, Zakinthos, while
in the
western
side
you can found the best solitary calm. The most famous beach of the
island is without doubts Lagana, positioned to south and place of
meeting and reproduction of gigantic turtles
of sea. But Zakinthos also has numerous caves
with
the most varied colours as the famous Blue Cave that offers sceneries
to his inside to cut the breaths.
due
to the rays of the sun on the water of the sea that they create
different tones of blue colour and silver.
Diving
Centre
National park zakynthos
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