Prefecture of
Lefkadas
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Nydri concentrates the biggest
number of tourists of the whole island. It is built lenghtwise the coast, in an all green
plain. It is a modern group of houses, 17km south-east of Lefkada and it has
1011 inhabitants. Nydri as well as the city`s port are the third areas of Greece with the
greatest going through and serving of yachts. Opposite Nydri there are the islets
Prigiponesia, Madoure of the poet maker Aristotle Valaoritis, Chelone, Scorpion and Sparte
of the famous Aristotle Onasis, Scorpidi of the magnate Livanos as well as the gulf of
Vlychus and the all green cape of Agia Kyriaki. The chapel of Agia Kyriaki dominates in
the cape, built among the rocks, as well as the "column of the Nymphs" on the
hill above the chapel and the grave of the German archaeologist Derpfeld, who claimed that
Nydri was in the Homeric Ithaca.
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The Prigiponesia islands |
Worth seeing places:
- The ruins of prehistoric city, aqueduct and protohellenic circular tombs.
- The grave of Neperfeld in the area of Agia Kyriaki.
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Agia Kyriaki |
The waterfalls, in a distance of 2km.
The islet of Madoure. There is the neoclassic mansion of the poet maker
Aristotle Valaoritis.
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