Kephalonia introduction tour.

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Kephalonia introduction tour.

Tour of the Kephalonia, guiding you to the most important places on the island.

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General difficulty level

General difficulty score: 50/100.

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Difficulty level in detail

Total ascent: 1144 m
Difficulty level (relative): 6/10

Max. slope (base 500m): 10.33 %
Difficulty level (relative): 7/10

Length: 93.5 km
Difficulty level (relative): 3/10

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Places of interest (along the route) (show all)

Argostoli (distance from start: 0 km/0 miles)

Argostoli
Argostoli is the capital of Kefalonia (Cephalonia). The city and harbour is very well protected providing great trading opportunities by the sheltered bay upon which Argostoli sits.

The city and most of the island was struck by the 1953 earthquake that shattered most of the buildings. 10 years before, the same happened but due to the German bombing.

Koutavos Lagoon (distance from start: 3.41 km/2.12 miles)

Koutavos Lagoon
The Koutavos Lagoon is a feeding ground for the Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta). The Koutavos Lagoon was once an almost impassable swamp where mosquitoes and malaria were rife.

Lixouri (distance from start: 11.01 km/6.84 miles)

Lixouri
Lixouri is the 2nd biggest city of Kephalonia. In the 19th century Lixouri was a popular tourist destination. Richard Strauss visited the town.

Windmill (distance from start: 11.01 km/6.84 miles)

Windmill
Windmill park

Paliki (distance from start: 11.01 km/6.84 miles)

Paliki
Paliki is as well the name of the peninsula as the name of a village on that peninsula. According to Robert Bittlestone's 2005 book Odysseus Unbound, Paliki was Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, the central figure in the Odyssey of Homer.

Farsa (distance from start: 11.01 km/6.84 miles)

Farsa
The novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by English author Louis de Bernières is believed to be inspired by the picturesque village of Farsa. It was later made in a film with Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz, a very weak derivative of the very good book.

The 1953 Ionian Earthquake destroyed every building in Farsa.

Strabo's Channel (distance from start: 19.06 km/11.84 miles)

Strabo's Channel
There is a geological these stating that this part of the island was once a part of the sea, seperating the western peninsula from the rest of the Island.

This geological channel is called Strabo's channel. This channel was still existing in the Bronze age. Seismic survey and boreholes support this hypothesis.

As a result, the western part of the island could have been a seperate island, as described by Homer, called Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus.

Source: Odysseus-unbound.org

Myrtos Beach (distance from start: 25.42 km/15.8 miles)

Myrtos Beach
Myrtos Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches of Cephalonia (Myrtos has previously been voted 12 times the best Greek beach). It's a pebbel beach created from marble.

Divarta (distance from start: 25.42 km/15.8 miles)

Divarta
Divarta is teh village from where you can get to the world famous beach of Myrtos.

Assos (distance from start: 28.8 km/17.9 miles)

Assos
Assos is located on the spit connecting a small penunsula to the main island.

Castle of Assos (distance from start: 28.8 km/17.9 miles)

Castle of Assos
The castle of Assos is located beyond the spit connecting the peninsula to the main island.

The castle provided a great view to the north, providing a early warning for ships coming from Italy and Corfu.

Fiskardo (distance from start: 31.15 km/19.36 miles)

Fiskardo
Fiskardo is a port and a two kilometre long bay.

Chaliotata (distance from start: 49.43 km/30.71 miles)

Chaliotata
Near Chaliotata is the marvelous Drogarati Cave with the lake Lake Melissani. It's a prime example of a dolina.

Tzanata (distance from start: 65.02 km/40.4 miles)

Tzanata
The most important archaeological discovery in Kefalonia (and in Greece) of the past 20 years was the discovery in 1991 of the Mycenaean tholos tomb at the outskirts of the village Tzanat.

The tomb was erected around 1300 B.C. In these tholos tombs kings and high ranked officials were buried in the Mycenaean period.

Mount Ainos (distance from start: 81.29 km/50.51 miles)

Mount Ainos
Mount Ainos is the tallest mountain in Cephallonia with an elevation of 1,628 metres.

Kefalonia (distance from start: 86.54 km/53.77 miles)

Kefalonia
The Massacre of the Acqui Division or the Cephalonia Massacre took place on this island during World War II. It was one of the largest prisoner of war massacres of the war.

It was the mass execution of the men of the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division by the Germans in the island.

The massacre provided the historical background to the novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which later became a Hollywood film.

Airport of Kephalonia (distance from start: 93.46 km/58.07 miles)

Airport of Kephalonia
Airport of Kephalonia

Places of interest (near the route)

  1. Melissani Cave
  2. Cephalonia
  3. Strabo's Channel
  4. Kefalonia
  5. Argostoli
  6. Farsa
  7. Mount Ainos
  8. Myrtos Beach
  9. Koutavos Lagoon
  10. Chaliotata
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Hotels nearby

  1. Ionian Emerald Resort
  2. Hotel Athina
  3. Astra Village Hotel & Suites
  4. Hotel Summery
  5. Pythos Studios
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