Destination Lefkada 2024

Your guide to family fun
Blessed with crystal waters, unique natural beauty and diversity, Lefkada
has all the ingredients for family adventures. Lefkada is neither small nor
big so it is perfect for families as it doesn’t require long drives while at the
same time there are plenty of family-friendly activities, including lots of
things that children and adults alike will enjoy.
What to do
The archaeological museum
It is a small but important museum,
whose findings date from the Middle
Paleolithic Age up to Roman Years.
There is a separate room exhibiting
the findings of Schliemann’s
assistant, the German archaeologist
Wilhelm Dӧrpfeld.
Orfeas museum of folklore
It exhibits more than a thousand
functional objects of Lefkada’s farm
life, tools of old crafts as well as
traditional costumes, embroideries,
etc.
The castle of Agia Mavra
At the entrance to Lefkada town the
castle of Agia Mavra stands proudly,
a model of fortification architecture
of the Middle Ages, with a central
core in the shape of an irregular
heptagon reinforced at its seven
corners with bastions and three
external ramparts. It protected the
capital from the first decade of the
fourteenth century until 1684.
18
Destination
LEFKADA
www.lefkadaslowguide.gr