Category Archives: Kefalonia island>Southern Kefalonia

The Church of the Virgin Mary at Drapano lies adjacent to the Drapano Municipal Cemetery, and is known for its impressive reredos which showcases icons from prominent artists and iconographers.

This convent is the unofficial center of religious life on the island as the convent is attached to a spacious church dedicated to Kefalonia’s patron saint, St. Gerasimos. Accounts of his life revere ...

Originally established in Byzantine times, the convent was restored in 1579 when three spiritual sisters purchased the land where the chapel of the Apostle once stood and converted it into a convent. ...

The church of St. Nicholas is of Catholic denomination, and is located on Lithostroto avenue. Behind the church proper, a small exhibit put together by the Greek-Italian association of Kefalonia and I ...