The fine shingle beaches just below the hamlet are some of Ithaca’s best. Views across the sea to Cephalonia take in a tiny island, shaped like a long boat and reputed to be the Phoenicians’ boat used to return Odysseus to Ithaca and ultimately petrified by Poseidon.
An island to discover...
Probably the most legendary of all Greek islands, Ithaca is strangely one of the least known.
