kythera travel guide

ANCIENT KYTHERA & THE SOUTH EASTOF THE ISL AND Most of the ancient sites on Kythera lie along or near to the southeastern coast, a fact which underlines the greater importance and interest of [...]

MUREX PURPLE DYEING The technology of dyeing textiles in a rich purple colour derived from marine molluscs is remarkably ancient. It has always been supposed that it was first mastered by the [...]

PALAIOCHORA & THE NORTHOF THE ISL AND(The main north/south road of the island is joined by the road from the airport and the port of Diakofti at a junction in the centre of the island at [...]

MYLOPOTAMOS &THE SOUTHWEST OF THE ISL ANDHeading out on the main road north from Chora, the sea soon disappears from sight and the road enters the fertile and protected valley of Manitochori [...]

Kythera Travel Guide – Best of Kythera Island: History, beaches, places to visit & more.  …No visitor can fail to be struck by Kythera’s charm or by the variety of its [...]

General Famous in Antiquity as the island of Aphrodite, and immortalised as such in the European imagination of the 18th century by Watteau’s celebrated painting L’Embarquement pour l’Isle de [...]

History and Legend As might be expected of an island as close to the Peloponnese as Kythera, archaeological evidence (from the southern cave of Aghia Sophia in particular) bears witness to [...]

A note on visiting Byzantine churches on Kythera The island, for its size, has an unequalled wealth of Byzantine churches. Many of those mentioned here are kept locked and their keys are no [...]

KYTHERA CHORA & KAPSALI The proper settlement of the Chora of Kythera dates from the time of the abandonment of the early mediaeval capital of the island—then called Aghios Demetrios and now [...]