Kythira: Town Kythira

Kythira Villages: Town village in Kythira Town Village Kythira: Hora is the capital of Kythira, built on the southern tip of the island, on a high hill above the sea which offers a magnificent view of Kapsali. The village offers a wonderful mixture of Venetian defensive architecture and Cycladic architecture. The white and blue little houses share their peaceful existence with buildings of the English period as well as from the Venetian period, all this creating a really interesting picture.

The town is dominated by a Venetian castle, or kastro, built in 1150 on a cliff so as to be inaccessible from the sea. Within the kastro are preserved ruins of Venetians buildings and 21 Byzantine and post-Byzantine churches with really nice iconostasis and frescoes. In Hora, visitors will find a National Bank of Greece, a telephone centre (OTE), a post office, a police station, many hotels, rooms to let, shops, bars, travel agencies and excellent taverns. Town on map ........................................................................................................................................... Back: + Kythira Home + Kythira Villages + Ionian Islands + Ionian Villages + Greece Home Related: + Beaches + Churches + Museums + Beach Pictures + Pictures