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LEFKADA (Town) IONIAN ISLANDS
Today's Lefkada town dates to 1684 when the Venetian Morosini 'advised'
the inhabitants of the castle to settle outside its walls. The great seismic activity
of those years and the limited economic means of the Lefkadiots played a decisive
role in the architecture of the houses. The type of house which prevailed in the
new capital was the small, mainly two-storey, timber-framed house with a wooden
balcony and tiled roof, and narrow lanes running in between the houses.
The upper floor was usually constructed of wood and mud and the lower
floor of stone, creating in this way an anti-earthquake structure, unique in the
world. With the passing of the years and the regular earthquakes, the inhabitants
would rebuild their houses with the same materials, taking care that the upper
floor was light and covering it with metal sheeting which they would paint in
various delicate colours. This technique is still used today and there are many
houses in the centre of town which still have this metal sheeting.
The upper window-shutters are movable and painted in a strong green
or blue colour. There are no clear influences from Venetian architecture in Lefkada,
as in Zakynthos and Corfu
and the Venetians did not contribute to the building of the town. The old mansions
and the ornate town houses had fireplaces and were built on large plots of land
with gardens and splendid outer gates. One typical such house is the celebrated
home of Zoulinos family, which today houses the Public Library and Collection
of Post-Byzantine Icons of the Septinsular School. The visitor will be able to
see many of the traditional houses of Lefkada, such as the home of Skiaderesi
family with its pretty balconies, on Dorpfeld Street, in amongst the tourist and
other shops.
This extract is cited April 2004 from the Prefecture of Lefkada URL below, which contains images
LEFKAS (Ancient city) LEFKADA
But the Corinthians sent by Cypselus and Gorgus took possession of this shore and also advanced as far as the Ambracian Gulf; and both Ambracia and Anactorium were colonized at this time; and the Corinthians dug a canal through the isthmus of the peninsula and made Leucas an island; and they transferred Nericus to the place which, though once an isthmus, is now a strait spanned by a bridge, and they changed its name to Leucas, which was named, as I think, after Leucatas; for Leucatas is a rock of white color jutting out from Leucas into the sea and towards Cephallenia and therefore it took its name from its color. It contains the temple of Apollo Leucatas, and also the "Leap," which was believed to put an end to the longings of love.
. . . next again, five hundred Ampraciots. After these stood eight hundred Leucadians and Anactorians, and next to them two hundred from Pale in Cephallenia
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