Kefalonia

Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands · Greece

Kefalonia, Greece
Photo: Matt Sims, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to October
Budget
$$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
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Kefalonia is the largest of the Ionian Islands, with a mountainous interior dominated by Mount Ainos — a national park supporting a rare endemic fir species — and a coastline of deep-cut bays and dramatic limestone cliffs. The island's underground geography is notable for the Melissani Cave, where a collapsed roof allows sunlight to illuminate a turquoise underground lake, and the Drogarati Cave with its impressive stalactite chamber. Kefalonian Robola wine, produced from local limestone-soil vineyards, is among the more distinctive Greek white wines.

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