Kefallonia

Kefallonia, together with Lefkada and Ithaki form the center group of the Eptanese. Kefallonia has most sunny days in Greece, after Mitilini. Beside mountains, Kefalonia has small lakes with beautiful scenery. Kefallonia is formed of jagged hilly limestone. It is 50km 31 miles long and the largest (735km - 284sq miles) of the lonian Islands.
The landscape is varied; smiling terraces by the sea contrast with the more arid mountain slopes which nonetheless support cypresses among the olives.
Mount Ainos (Enos), the highest point (alt 1 628m - 5 941ft), is covered by a particular kind of spruce peculiar to the island.

Local specialities include the delicious Robola wine, dishes composed of meat and rice and thyme-flavoured honey.
The Cephallonians are reputed to be a spirited people whose patriotism was praised by Byron.
The island has not only produced soldiers, sailors and enterprising emigrants, but has also fostered an aristocratic and cultivated society which produced scholars and politicians such as Metaxas (1871-1941) who rejected the Italian ultimatum on 28 October 1940.

History

Some say that a traveller who left Attika, in the ancient years, and came in Kefalonia where he became King. The name of the traveller was Kefalos. But Kefalonia was named after Kefallanes, a tribe from western Greece.

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