Experience Kefalonite Culture In Greece With Wine Tasting Tour

Then explore Distillery-Vasilaki winery functions as an exhibition of wines - drinks and traditional Heptanasian products that are produced with a lot of love and passion by the family itself. In the area are the mountainous vineyards of the Vasilakis family, in which the finest variety is Robola. Robola is a type of grape that occupies a prominent position in Greek vineyards, it gives wine that has been identified with Kefalonia and has rightly made our island known worldwide. Try for free the wines, liqueurs, sweets, honey, olive oil, perfumes.

The monastery is considered one of the most sacred pilgrimages in Kefalonia hosting a great number of visitors. A small church to Agios Gerasimos has been built above the tomb and the cave of the saint. The Saint also had planted a plane tree which is still preserved at the monastery. On his feast day, August 16th, there is a grand litany for the commemoration of the saint's death in which his sarcophagus is paraded and laid under the plane tree. 90 minutes

The cave of Melissani is located near Karavomilos on the island of Kefalonia. It is a lacustrine cave of unique beauty and fully developed cave, which is 3.5 km long, 40m wide and 36m high. Melissani cave constitutes a unique geological phenomenon. It was created by a mechanical and chemical process called karstikopoiisi (dissolution of rocks) during which water enters the calcareous rocks, erodes them and creates hollows.