Ithaca

Ithaca Kefalonia Lefkada

Ithaca

 

approaching the sheltered harbor

 

community of Ithaca

Itháki, also Ithaca, island, western Greece, one of the Ionian Islands, in Kefallinía (Cephalonia) Department. The small community of Itháki, on a sheltered bay in the southern part of the island, is the capital and chief port. The mountainous, rocky island has many archaeological relics and may have been the site of the legendary kingdom of Odysseus depicted by Homer in the Odyssey. An earthquake damaged the island in 1953. Area, 96 sq km (37 sq mi) population (1981) 3,646.

Text from Microsoft Encarta

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

island in the harbor

 

fisher person


 

 

a church on the interior of the island

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

inland house

 

citrus growing

 

cove where Odysseus was thought to have landed

More photos of the Homer Legend

 

the butcher

 

treats for all ages


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