Lefkas
- a traditional greek Ionian Island; beautiful scenery, mountains
and beaches.
It seems
to to have so much variety of scenery within one relatively
small island. It is green (verdant as it says in all good
Greek guides), has spectacular coastlines, superb beaches
(if you are willing to look for them), traditional Greek night
life, ghostly deserted mountain villages, and lovely, warm
people. It all seems to be contained within Lefkas.
There
is not a lot in the way of clubs and discos except for a few
in Nidri. Most young people who go there are attracted by
the boating and wind surfing. Neither is it a bucket and spade
kind of island. The beaches on the Nidri side are essentially
pebbly, but the sea is warm and shallow, ideal for paddling
and safe swimming. The beautiful sandy beaches on the other
side are more serious, they do have strong currents and the
sea can be rough.
In antiquity,
Lefkas was known as 'Leucas', or white, after the white cliffs
on the southern Cape Lefkatas. 'Kavos
tis Kyras', or the Cape of the Lady, as it is also known,
was made infamous by the ancient Greek poet, Sappho.
Sappho,
writing in the sixth century BC, was considered by Plato to
be the 'Tenth muse' and today to have been 'the first modern
poet'. Legend
has it that she flung herself from the cliff at Cape Lefkatas
when Phaeon rejected her love.
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