Νησια Ιονιου

Nissia Ioniou - Ionian Islands - Eptanissia - Seven Islands

The Ionian Islands are numerous Islands on the western coastline of Greece, at the southern end of the Adriatic Sea. The Greeks call it Eptanissia (Seven Islands) which resembles a short period around 1800 when seven islands formed an independent republic.

The main Ionian Islands are from the north to the south:

• Corfu (Kérkyra), the biggest island with 592 km² and 100,000 inhabitants. This island is very touristic, but has no show caves.
• Paxi and Antipaxi are two small islands, south of Korfu. There are many rather small sea caves along the west coast of Antipaxi, which are called graves.
  
• Lefkáda (also Lefkas, Leukas) a small island with a very young tourism. This island is originally a peninsula which is separated from the mainland by a channel since Roman times, for strategic reasons. No show caves, but the second-biggest sea cave of Greece.
• Kefalonia, where all the karst features are. On Kefalonia are many caves, most of them around Sami. There are two show caves and numerous wild caves, which are pretty big, but hard to find. And here is maybe the strangest karst phenomenon of the world, the Kathavothres, where sea water flows into swallow holes.
• Ithaki (Ithaka), probably the home of Odysseus. There is one show cave on the island called Marmarospilia.
• Zakynthos is the southernmost island and rather big. At the northern end is a small sea cave, called Blue Grotto, which is a popular tourist destination.

• Sights of This Region
• Antipaxi
• Corfu
• Corfu Cave Tour
• Erikoussa
• Ithaki
• Loizos Cave
• Spílaio Nymfón
• Kefalonia
• Chapel of Agia Varvara
• Iepa Moni Agios Gerasimos
• Cave of Agios Theodoros
• Spilaio Drogkarati
• Grouspa Cave
• Karavomilos Lake
• Katavothres
• Limni Melissani
• Polje of Valsamata
• Zervati Cave
• Kythira
• Lefkáda
• Spilia Papanikolis
• Meganissi
• Paxi
• Zakynthos
• Damianos Cave
• Galázia Spiliá
• Mavri Spilia