Signs & Statues

Our room placard at 9 Muses Hotel.

Stella's Mediterranean Tavern. One of my favorite restaurants anywhere in the world!

From, an article in Odyssey Magazine, Vol. 7 No. 6 (July/August 2000) Love in a Warm Climate: How Five Young Greek-Australian Women Found Love and Culture Shock on Kythira by, Anna Patty. To read the entire article go to...

The Lion of St Mark symbolises the Venetian influence on the island. This one graces one of the buildings in Hora.

where on the island is this road sign?

lets go to pelagia for a ice cream.

sinage around the island

approaching potamos

This plaque decorates a house in Hora that once belonged to the family of the mother of Leykadios Hern, who's history you can check out in the high achievers section.

A scene from the Archaeological Museum at Hora with one of its centrepiece exhibits, the sculptured lion from the Archaic Period of the island's history

This famous lion statue looks over the pond in the main square of picturesque and leafy Mylopotamos

Some of the headstones from the British occupation of the island, interspersed amongst the characteristic panels depicting the Venetian lion of St Mark, are on display in the Archaeological Museum at Hora.

The Venetian Lion of St Mark is visible in many parts of the island as a reminder of the long Venetian occupation of the island.

The statue of Kolokotronis near Agia Moni. The Greek revolutionary hero escaped to Kythera in 1806.

The Archaeological Museum at Hora is filled with the reminders of the British occupation

Truley, one of the wonders of the ancient times and of course one of the artifacts found with the bronze items off of the coast of AntiKythera in the early 1900's by sponge divers. This ancient wonder is thought to have...

One of the bronze statues found off the coast of AntiKythera in the early 1900's. He sure looks like he could be a Tsirigotis to me. Truly handsome and with great character

No story of Kythera is complete without talking about the famous bronze statues and artifacts found off of the coast of AntiKythera in the 1900's by sponge divers. Stories told to me as a youth, suggest that my Papoo Dem...

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This is the dedication on the back. It mentions several family names who evidently supported its erection.