Have you been to Zakynthos? Perhaps most of
you have visited the dreamed island, the island of Solomos, Kalboy,
Xenopoyloy, Roma, Karer and many other big men but also women naturally.
The island of “kareta-kareta” turtle,
with the wooded hills, the slopes with olive trees, the plains
with the raisin vineyard and citrus fruits, the splendid turquoises
beaches with the white sand and the abrupt cutters coasts.
Historical
According to the delivery, the island owes his name in his first
settler Zakynthos, which reached there from Arkadia, in the 1500
bc. In the season of classic years Zakynthos knew big growth and
founded colonies. Because her strategic place became object of
conflicts until it is subjugated in the Romen 191 eg and during
the Byzantine Years it accepted a lot of attacks from the pirates
and the Normen. To the dues of 12th century it devolved to the
jurisdiction of earl Orsini and from the means of 15th century
to the Venetians. In the duration of years that followed the
island it connected his chance with the other islands and it played
important role in the Revolution 1821.
Theater, music and sightseeings
Zakynthos has large trafition in the good music, in the theater and
as generally speaking in all forms of art. Population cultivated,
polite, different, we would say, from remainder. And we are anymore
in position we distinguish Zakynthos residents immediately. Zakynthos's
resident, apart from a innate politeness, we would say, in the ways, they
have
imagination, humor, tastefulness, education and high cultural level.
Right, genuine polite behavior, that thry maintain, fortunately,
up to today. Today, the noise pollution that us sounds from
the moment where we will wake up up to the hour where we will reign,
has destroyed progressively our aesthetics.
The capital, that is also the harbor of island, unfolds in their
foot of hill that had built the first citadel, Psopsis, and later
the fortified city of Interest (1357-1478). The coastal street, Strata
Marina, with the wide pavements, assemble the life of city and
are offered for a walk.
Recognition and Reading
In order to learn about a place, that only we have imagined,
is to read what has been written for it. Naturally, this
is not always feasible: Big disposal but few time, which isn't
enough. We choose however a extract from the preface of Dionyssis A. Ziba
in the
book of Ioannis M. Demeti “Of The Sea:
Zakynthos' stroke of the brush in light blue you remind me” and
we copy him. The writer writes: “It appears that the
funny ic relation that connects Zakynthos with its residents,
relation
oldest and multiple admitting, neither limits has nor is followed
at certain concrete rules or ways of expression. Thus the
poetry and the music, the art, the theater and the literature,
the science the himself, have often given occasions innumerable
in order to are expressed this relation as well as the intensity
and her polymorph. And so innumerable are the “products” that
picture and beautify this life for the
place where they were given birth”.