Lefkas Island Greece holidays

Nightlife

Party lovers will love the town of Nidri the streets are full of loud bars and lively nightclubs pumping music out into early hours of the morning. The vibrant towns of Lefkas and Preveza have something for everyone especially the 18 to 30 age group wanting to party the nights away. There are also lots of nice bars to sit and relax in and have a pleasant drink while the party revellers do their thing in some of the other resorts.

Things to do

Lefkas or Preveza don’t have a great deal of sightseeing, but there are a few places that may interest you if you have managed to drag yourself out of your room after partying all night long. Agia Mavra castle has undergone some renovation work and is worth a visit. Also the church there is used during the summer months for concerts and festivals and tends to attract quite a few visitors for the cultural events. Lefkas was mostly ruined in the earthquakes in 1948 and hit again in 1953 so a lot of the Venetian style houses have gone, with only a few examples of traditional buildings dotted around. A lot of the buildings tend to be built with wood and sheet metal. They are not what you could really call charming but they are painted in bright summer colours along the narrow alleyways, and I suppose they make a good photo opportunity. The monastery of Panagia Faneromeni is well worth a visit. It’s not the original one that was built in 1634, as since then the monastery has been burnt down twice and re-built. Today it houses a superb collection of rare Byzantine icons and old manuscripts among other items of interest. You could also take a walk over the bridge that connects the island to the mainland if you’re looking to do a lot of exploring while on your holiday. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people dream of sailing in the Mediterranean but don’t realize that many of the places where people sail do not offer good sailing. The best places are to the east of the Med, and the Ionians, the islands to the west of Greece are acknowledged to form one of the best sailing grounds in the world.

To the north of these islands, and right at the north of Greece, is Corfu, and there are a few small islands to the south of that famous island, with a few anchorages on the mainland. In the heart of the Ionians, about 30 miles south of Corfu is Preveza, a port just inside the neck of an inland sea. Here you can moor on the jetty that runs alongside the town, on have your boat hauled out on the opposite side of the entrance to the inland sea at Aktio. Read the rest of this entry »

Lefkada Island, the fourth largest island in the Ionian Sea, is mostly famous for its long and wonderful beaches that attract millions of tourists every summer. Easily connected to the Greek mainland by a bridge, Lefkada has developed much tourism amenities over the last years, mainly due to its picturesque beaches. Read the rest of this entry »