From 300 meters high, the castle has been keeping an eye on everything since it was built 800 years ago. It was the place of residence for nobles and officials and has been the capital of Kefalonia for centuries.
Under the Venetians, these 16 acres of land hosted a small city, which included two churches, noblemen’s houses, ramparts, cisterns, tanks with water and boiling oil to dump on unwanted visitors, a hospital, an underground tunnel that reached all the way to Koutavos, an underground prison, storage room for wheat and legumes, ovens and everything else needed to withstand a long siege.
