Insight Guides Pocket Zakynthos & Kefalonia (Travel Guide eBook) by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Greece
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Just along from Xí beach, close to Cape Akrotíri, is the Kounópetra (the name literally means, ‘rocking stone’). This flat slab of stone used to rock in the waves, but the 1953 earthquake disturbed its balance, so that it no longer moves.

North of Xí is the village of Madzavináta, unremarkable except for the Vitoratos Winery (summer daily 10am–2pm and 6–8pm). Beyond Madzanináta is Havriáta. As well as the church of Iperagías Theotókou, it is the location of the school of Vikentiou Damodou (1700–52), one of the first on the island. Back towards Lixoúri is Soullári, with its church of Agías Marínas, dating from 1600 and containing icons by the Cretan painters Immanuel Moskos and Theodoros Poulakis. The water dripping down in the cave at Moní Agías Paraskevís, by the beach at Lépeda, allegedly cures eye infections.

North of town, past the port of ancient Pali at Karavostási, is the monastery of the Panagías at Kehriónos; a festival is held here on 23 August. Some 5km (3 miles) further on is a small but important wetland area near the village of Livádi.

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