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Scuba Diving in Kefalonia
Scuba diving is a popular watersport on the island of Kefalonia, with some of the richest aquatic life, beautiful limestone cliffs, and pebbly sea beds. Its numerous bays and beaches with mesmerising crystal clear blue waters provide complete visibility. Myrtos Beach, Foki Beach, Skala Beach, and Emblisi Beach are some of Kefalonia's most popular beaches for scuba diving.
Beaches, boat tours, and cruises around the island have facilities and guides for swimming, snorkelling, and scuba diving. Kefalonia is known for its distinctive beaches, which are home to underwater caves, pirate coves, volcanic hot springs, shipwrecks, and more.
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Skala Beach
Skala Beach is a 5 km long Blue Flag beach located at the end of Skala Town in Kefalonia, surrounded by green hills and pine forests. The popular beach with crystal-clear water has both pebbled and sandy sections. Enjoy a fun-filled day at the water sports centre offering jet skiing, banana boats, paddle boating, and scuba diving. Skala beach also serves as a nesting habitat for Loggerhead sea turtles.
It is fully equipped with facilities, such as a bar, washrooms, umbrellas, sun loungers, changing rooms, and a volleyball court. Several hotels and taverns are also located on the coast. Take a full-day boat tour or cruise to nearby islands. Supermarkets, Souvenir shops, restaurants, and cafes in Skala Town are all in close vicinity. Potamakia and Aragia beaches are nearby.
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Trapezaki Beach
Trapezaki beach is a cosy picturesque beach located on the outskirts of Trapezaki village on the southwest coast of Kefalonia Island. The sandy beach is 13 km from Argostoli and is divided into two parts. One-half of the beach has a beach bar or tavern and is highly populated, while the other half is more secluded. Watersports such as kayaking and fishing tours are available.
The beach is accessible via a car, ATV, or a walk through a steep track. It has basic facilities such as rentable sunbeds, umbrellas, and showers. There are several eateries and mini-markets about 20 minutes from the beach. Agios Thomas beach is in close vicinity.
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Xi Beach
Xi beach is a distinctive beach located 7 km from Lixouri town on the western end of Kefalonia Island. Blue flag beach is famous for its towering white clay cliffs and orange sand. It is named Xi as rocks on the beach cove are shaped like the Greek letter Xi. Water skiing and jet skiing are two of the most popular water sports here.
Several beach bars on the hill offer lavish sun loungers, tables, and umbrellas. The beach also has other basic facilities such as showers, toilets, and car parking. Visitors apply the clay from the hills on their faces and bodies due to its natural healing and detoxifying properties.
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Olympic Museum
Thessaloniki’s Olympic Museum celebrates the glorious past and present of Greek sporting culture upheld within glass enclosures. The attraction is next to two athletic and cultural giants, the Kaftanzoglio National Stadium and Aristotle University. It displays historical archives - documents, pictures, medals, flags, and other items relevant to Greece’s participation in the Olympics and other sporting events over the years.
Sports equipment owned by Olympians from Greece and other countries, either curated or donated, are also on display. The museum was established in 1988 with the goal of collecting, recording, preserving, and promoting the culture of sports. During the 2004 Athens Olympics hosted, the museum was shifted to its current location.
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Acropolis of Thessaloniki
The Acropolis of Thessaloniki lies in the northernmost part of the city, enclosed by the walls, just beyond Vlatodon Monastery. Two massive gates, called ‘portares’ lead into the Acropolis. The Tower of Trigonio, a medieval-era arsenal and weaponry that now offers a stunning view of Mount Olympus, also stands here.
Although the Acropolis of Athens is the more world-famous one, every Greek city had a region distinguished as an ‘Acropolis’. The term referred to the uppermost part of a city along the slope of a mountain with a citadel. Thessaloniki’s Acropolis surrounds the citadel Heptapyrgion, a Byzantine and Ottoman-era fortress that was later turned into the notorious Yedikule prison.
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Agora Modiano
Located right in the heart of Central Thessaloniki, next to Aristotelous Square, Agora Modiano is an enclosed market. Agora Modiano celebrates flavours and textures from high-quality fresh meat, seafood, and vegetables to aromatic coffee and spices. There are approximately 75 shops in the new floor plan, with restaurants and cafes in the northern and southern parts. It can be accessed via Vasileos Heraklion and Ermou Streets.
The market draws its name from its architect Eli Modiano, a well-known Sephardic Jewish family member who owned the plot. It is currently owned by The Fais Group, Greece’s largest retail company. After a hiatus of six years, the market finally reopened in December 2022 and is awaiting a grand opening at the beginning of next year. The newly designed Agora Modiano preserves the market's legacy and makes way for organic and fair trade products.
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Ana Poli Thessaloniki
Ana Poli, or the Upper Town of Thessaloniki, is where most of the town’s Byzantine and Ottoman heritages are preserved. The area houses the Acropolis, a medieval fort known as the Eptapyrgio, from where one can witness a majestic Macedonian sunset. Mount Olympus can be seen in the distance on days with clearer skies.
Of the exquisite paleo-Christian churches in Ana Poli, the 5th-century Church of Osios David and the 14th-century Vlatadon Monastery, with their blissful courtyard gardens, are must-visits. One should also see the 15th-century Ataturk Museum, locally called Alaca Imaret. It is the birthplace of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of modern Turkey. When done with the sightseeing, feel free to dine at one of the tavernas or enjoy a cup of coffee at an alfresco cafe. The part of Thessaloniki was not destroyed by the Great Fire of 1917. Ana Poli boasts a colourful landscape and several historical gems, some of which are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Arch of Galerius
The Arch of Galerius, also known as Kamara, stands south of Thessaloniki’s iconic Rotunda on the modern-day intersection of Egnatia and Dimitriou Gounari streets. Credited as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988, the Arch is an exemplary monument of early Byzantine architecture and a must-visit archaeological site in Thessaloniki.
Through the central arch once ran the medieval Roman road 'decumanus' that linked Dyrrhachium with Byzantium. Today, only three of the eight original piers of the Arch remain. Still, the entire gateway was once a tribute to Tetrarch Galerius’ victory over the Sassanid Persian chief Shah Narses at the Battle of Satala. Battle scenarios are sculpted in detail in the marble panel reliefs of the Arch, along with other aspects of the Byzantine Empire.
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Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is the central museum of Northern Greece and one of the primary attractions of Central Macedonia. Standing on Manoli Andronikou Street, the museum has its collection divided into eight units starting back from prehistoric Macedonia. The Derveni krater, the statue of Harpocrates, the Head of Serapis, the Marble food from the Macedonian tomb of Agia Paraskevi, and the gold coins, diadems, disks and Medusa heads are among the most notable exhibits on display.
It takes nearly 2.5-3 hours to cover the entire museum. But if visitors have limited time, some of the must-visits are the excavations from burial monuments, the sanctuary of Egyptian Gods called Sarapeion, and the Petralona Skul,l which is believed to be 200,000 years old and is the oldest found proof of humankind in Greece.
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