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submitted by Gary Smith on 06.08.2005

Erato - "103"

Our room placard at 9 Muses Hotel.

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submitted by Gary Smith on 06.08.2005

Stella's Mediterranean Tavern

Stella's Mediterranean Tavern. One of my favorite restaurants anywhere in the world!

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submitted by Odyssey Magazine on 05.04.2005

Kithira signpost.

From, an article in Odyssey Magazine,
Vol. 7 No. 6 (July/August 2000)

Love in a Warm Climate: How Five Young Greek-Australian Women Found Love and Culture Shock on Kythira

by, Anna Patty.

To read the entire article go to History, subsection, General History, or search Patty, or Shock, with the internal search engine.


Author:Odyssey Magazine
When Published: bi-monthly

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submitted by George Vardas on 25.01.2005

The Lion of St Mark

The Lion of St Mark symbolises the Venetian influence on the island. This one graces one of the buildings in Hora.

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submitted by Stephen Trifyllis on 24.09.2004

ROAD SIGNS

where on the island is this road sign?

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submitted by Stephen Trifyllis on 24.09.2004

ROAD SIGNS

lets go to pelagia for a ice cream.

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submitted by Stephen Trifyllis on 24.09.2004

WHICH WAY TO MITATA

sinage around the island

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submitted by Stephen Trifyllis on 24.09.2004

OUTER POTAMOS

approaching potamos

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submitted by Eleni Harou on 06.07.2004

Levkadios Hern's mother's family home in Hora

This plaque decorates a house in Hora that once belonged to the family of the mother of Leykadios Hern, who's history you can check out in the high achievers section.

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submitted by George Vardas on 04.06.2004

The Archaic Lion

A scene from the Archaeological Museum at Hora with one of its centrepiece exhibits, the sculptured lion from the Archaic Period of the island's history

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submitted by George Vardas on 18.05.2004

The Lionhead

This famous lion statue looks over the pond in the main square of picturesque and leafy Mylopotamos

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submitted by George Vardas on 03.05.2004

Tombstones

Some of the headstones from the British occupation of the island, interspersed amongst the characteristic panels depicting the Venetian lion of St Mark, are on display in the Archaeological Museum at Hora.

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submitted by George Vardas on 01.05.2004

The lion of St Mark

The Venetian Lion of St Mark is visible in many parts of the island as a reminder of the long Venetian occupation of the island.

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submitted by George Vardas on 20.04.2004

Statue of Kolokotronis

The statue of Kolokotronis near Agia Moni. The Greek revolutionary hero escaped to Kythera in 1806.

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submitted by George Vardas on 19.04.2004

Treasures of the Archaeological Museum

The Archaeological Museum at Hora is filled with the reminders of the British occupation

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submitted by James Gavriles on 14.03.2004

The AntiKythera Mechanism

Truley, one of the wonders of the ancient times and of course one of the artifacts found with the bronze items off of the coast of AntiKythera in the early 1900's by sponge divers.
This ancient wonder is thought to have been designed and built by Archimedes to calculate time, day, month, years, etc.
It has been x-rayed and studied by many mathematicians and scientists and engineers and it contains very accurately cut gears and shafts, that work together to calculate the elements of ...

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submitted by James Gavriles on 14.03.2004

Philosopher of AntiKythera

One of the bronze statues found off the coast of AntiKythera in the early 1900's.
He sure looks like he could be a Tsirigotis to me. Truly handsome and with great character

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submitted by James Gavriles on 14.03.2004

Youth of Anti-Kythera bronze

No story of Kythera is complete without talking about the famous bronze statues and artifacts found off of the coast of AntiKythera in the 1900's by sponge divers.
Stories told to me as a youth, suggest that my Papoo Demetrios Gavrilis was one of these sponge divers and that when they first saw them on the bottom of the sea, the divers were scared, that they may be bodies of people.
My Papoo was indeed a sponge diver in that time and area and he had a full sponge diving outfit with ...

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submitted by James Victor Prineas on 13.03.2004

Fratsia Avlemonas

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submitted by Peter Coroneos on 23.12.2003

reverse of statue of General P Coroneos

This is the dedication on the back. It mentions several family names who evidently supported its erection.