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 A pole of attraction for the visitor of Laconia, is the New born Island of the azure spring, the "on waves walking" Elafonisos. Through the course of Saint Apostoli, Saint George, Viglafia, an asphalt road with 6 km length, leads to the harbor of Antinognathos (hangar), which is the shortest passage to the island. A travel into the time, that lasts 6 minutes and is lost in the history and the prehistory, over the immerged part of the island and through the azure-emerald waves of the channel. From east Periavgi beach of Pounta accompanies the trip and the carriage history-pointers to the west through the bottom of the seas. Approaching the island, we meet, to the east, a remnant of the immerged area, the small island Stavros, with Spitha (light-house) and its ethereal sea-gulls and to the west the divine Gull of the island, Saint Spiridon, decorated with the rays of the sun and perfumed from the breath of Zefiros and the seatrickles of the daybreak. We get into the harbor of the island and our sight is overfilled with the strong traditional insular pictures, to erase them later will a painful process. The island has one of the biggest fishing fleets in Greece, which very rarely is gathered in the island due to to its spread in the south coasts of Peloponnesus in Kithira and Antikithira. To the right and to the left of Kefaloskalo the picturesque beach of the island with the fish taverns and the traditional ouzeri (shops offering ouzo and meze only), where is offered the opportunity of enjoying the delicious fish soup (kakavia) and the octopus of Elafonisos near the cables of the caics and the swinging of the fishing boats and next to the calm silver colored waters of the sea while the rays of the sun are walking on the waves. Saint Spiridon KOSTAS SP.MENTIS - S.PELOPONNESUS |
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colors of the afternoon, figure
under the purple covered stars, which decorate the silver laying of the East. Next
to it, the almost fallen down wind mill counts in the pass of time the speed of the wind.
Saint Spiridon was built 1852 by the fighter of the revolution of 1821, Pashalis Gerakaris
and his wife Florou Grigorakis in a notable position. I was completed on 1856 and
renovated in 1862. In the temple, we see icons of Panagia Vrefocratousa, St John Prodomos,
Christ Pantocrator, St. Spiridon , the gathering of the Archangels.