Traveling to the western peninsula of Kefalonia, the Homeric Pali, the visitor discovers a completely different part of the beautiful island. Lixouri, the beautiful Horopoula, as the poet Andreas Laskaratos called it, is located on the eastern coast of the Pale Peninsula. The capital of the Municipality, Lixouri, appears in the archives of the Venetian Senate from 1534 and is the most historic city in the modern history of Kefalonia. The history and culture of the area of Lixouri begins in the depths of mythology with the name of the wider area of Pali coming from Paleas, son of the first mythical king of Kefalonia, Kefalos. In the course of history we meet the Ancients at the siege of Troy, taking part in the Battle of Plataea and in the Peloponnesian War on the side of the Athenians, to fight against Philip of Macedon and the Romans, to form a Byzantine province, to participate in the wars of the Venetian Republic and the European renaissance. In the area of Akrotiri in a small cove on a very beautiful beach there was a temple of Poseidon and a Roman plaque with representations of two dolphins and a trident has been found (kept in the Archaeological Museum of Argostoli). Ancient coins have been found from the Ancient Pali depicting the Goddess Demeter, the dolphin, the ear of corn, Cephalus, Pallas and Pegasus. In the area of Akrotiri in a small cove on a very beautiful beach there was a temple of Poseidon and a Roman plaque with representations of two dolphins and a trident has been found (kept in the Archaeological Museum of Argostoli). Ancient coins have been found from the Ancient Pali depicting the Goddess Demeter, the dolphin, the ear of corn, Cephalus, Pallas and Pegasus. In the area of Akrotiri in a small cove on a very beautiful beach there was a temple of Poseidon and a Roman plaque with representations of two dolphins and a trident has been found (kept in the Archaeological Museum of Argostoli). Ancient coins have been found from the Ancient Pali depicting the Goddess Demeter, the dolphin, the ear of corn, Cephalus, Pallas and Pegasus.
Source: Municipality of Kefallonia
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