THE IONIAN ISLANDS

Among the 3000 inhabited islands of Greece,there is a small group of seven, known as the Eptianissa or Ionian Islands, located just off the western seaboard.

It is not surprising that one of the world's most enduring and romantic epic stories, Homer's Iliad, is centered on these captivating landscapes of rugged mountains, green hills and the ever present turquoise waters of the Ionian Sea.

Over the centuries these islands have developed their own culture and identity, partly through their periodic occupation by foreign powers such as the Venetians, the Turks and the British, but also as a result of their rich natural environment and the intimate association of their inhabitants to the land and the surrounding sea.

Each island is unique unto itself, varying not only form the rest of Greece but from its neighbours.