| Vacation images from the Ionian island of Kythira including the villages Kapsali, Potamos, Paleochora, the waterfall of Fonissa at Mylopotamos and the Castle of Chora. Several views from our balcony and the garden of Vassilis Studios.
At the start of the second millennium BC it was a Minoan colony and in 424 BC it came under the sway of Athens. In Ancient Greek Mythology, Kythira was considered to be the island of celestial Aphrodite, the Goddess of love. Over the centuries it knew a succession of conquerors from the Romans to the Byzantines, Venetians and Turks, and it was frequently looted by Barbary pirates. Kytherians still talk about the destruction and looting of Paliochora by Barbarossa; it has become an intrinsic part of the Kytherian folklore, yet one can easily accept the stories of locals by noticing the number of monasteries embedded in the rocky hillsides to avoid destruction by the pirates. |
Diros cave 1
Diros cave 2 
Gytheio 
Kythira 
Mani 
Olympia 
Myrtos beach 1 
Myrtos beach 2