Deciding where to stay in Lefkada shapes the whole holiday, because the island’s coasts differ sharply in character and swimming. The sheltered green east coast holds most of the resorts and the calmest water, while the exposed west keeps the famous cliff-backed beaches. A base near a good bay suits visitors, yet the finest sand … Read more
Lefkada stands apart from the other Ionian islands because it connects to the Greek mainland by road rather than by sea. A short causeway and a floating swing bridge cross the narrow channel near Lefkada Town, so no ferry is needed to arrive from Greece. The island has no airport of its own, yet Aktion … Read more
Lefkada sits in the Ionian Sea. Joined to the Greek mainland by a short causeway and a floating bridge. It is one of the few Greek islands reached entirely by car. This road link keeps the island compact and easy to tour, yet it packs a wide range of attractions into a small area. Bright … Read more
Lefkada Town, also called Chora, is the capital of the Ionian island of Lefkada, set at its northern tip beside a shallow lagoon. The town faces the narrow channel that separates the island from the mainland, crossed by a causeway and a floating bridge. Guarding that channel stands the Venetian castle of Agia Mavra, an … Read more
Nydri is the largest resort on the east coast of Lefkada, set on the sheltered green side of the island about 17 km south of Lefkada Town. The village faces a calm channel and a scatter of small offshore islets, and its long harbour is the island’s main base for boat trips. Day cruises and … Read more
Agios Nikitas is a small whitewashed former fishing village on the northwest coast of Lefkada, set in a sheltered cove about 12 km southwest of Lefkada Town. The drive takes around fifteen minutes by road, which keeps the village close to the island capital while still feeling calm and self-contained. A single pedestrian cobbled street … Read more
Vasiliki is a village and wide bay on the southern coast of Lefkada, about 40 km from Lefkada Town, and one of the best known windsurfing places in Europe. Its reputation rests on a thermal wind that sailors call Eric, produced by heating over the land combined with the funnel shape of the bay between … Read more
Kathisma Beach ranks among the longest and best known stretches of sand on the west coast of Lefkada, an Ionian island in western Greece. It lies about 15 km southwest of Lefkada Town and roughly 3.5 km south of the village of Agios Nikitas. At the foot of tall green cliffs that drop towards the … Read more
Egremni is the long white-pebble beach on the south-west coast of Lefkada. The second shore south along that coast after Porto Katsiki, lying below the village of Athani and about 40 km from Lefkada Town. It runs for roughly two kilometres at the foot of a high. Near-vertical cliff of pale rock. The water in … Read more
Lefkada sits on the western edge of Greece, joined to the mainland by a causeway and a floating bridge, and its coastline behaves like two separate islands. The western shore runs beneath tall white limestone cliffs that drop into open Ionian water, while the eastern shore curls into green, sheltered inlets that barely register a … Read more