Asos

Assos (Greek Άσσος ( f sg ), also Asos Άσος ) is a village in the municipality of Erisos the Greek island of Kefalonia and community at the edge of Erisos peninsula on which the castle of Assos is located. It is situated on a natural harbor, one half of which is used as a swimming beach, while on the other half to create smaller fishing boats.

The place as nearly the entire island destroyed the earthquake of 1953. The city of Paris funded the rebuilding of their homes, so that no change in the location of the image is visible. Today it is a memorial. The few dilapidated houses are more a consequence of depopulation that followed after the earthquake.

The limited geographical capacities and the old buildings have tourist use mostly limited to passing travelers who lodge on the way to the beach Myrtos or to Fiskardo a break.

Assos castle

In ancient times the area of ​​the later castle was its own island named " Asteris ". On it was the settlement Nesiolae, by the silting coastal island gradually became part of Kefalonia.

The Assos castle was built in 1585 as a refuge for the inhabitants of the place. In 1593 the Venetians decided because of the good strategic position to expand the castle to a larger citadel. But the most important problem, the water supply, could not be satisfactorily resolved, the citadel was never completed. Instead, the castle became the administrative seat of the Venetians, was administered from which the north of the island.

After 1684 the island of Lefkada was reconquered by the Venetians, the castle lost its trans-regional strategic importance, but was still used by the Venetians and the following powers as an administration building, which is why the castle today presents a relatively complete structural condition. Noteworthy are the walls two meters thick.