Kefalonia history

The Castle of Saint George in Kefalonia: The Island’s Medieval Capital

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The Venetian walls of the Castle of Saint George above Peratata, Kefalonia

The Castle of Saint George, known in Greek as the Kastro or the fortress of Agios Georgios. Crowns a hill of roughly 300 metres above the village of Peratata in the Livatho plain. It sits about 7 km southeast of Argostoli, the modern capital of Kefalonia, the largest of the Ionian islands. First raised by … Read more

The History of Kefalonia: From Mycenaean Times to the Earthquake

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Esperino Argostoliou Proavlio

Kefalonia carries a longer buried record than any other Ionian island, and the layers sit close enough together to visit within three days of driving. Rock-cut chamber tombs of the Bronze Age lie in the fields of the Livatho and in the valley behind Poros. Four separate classical city-states left walls of cyclopean blocks on … Read more