Drapano Bridge
Argostoli is the capital of the island of Kefalonia, the largest of the Ionian Islands, is a Bay on the Koutavos Lagoon. Loggerhead sea turtle can be seen in the Koutavos Lagoon and is an important step for migratory birds.
There is an archaeological museum where are exposed relics of the Mycenaean, Hellenistic, and Roman era, also in this place there are archaeological sites and other important places such as the cave of Agios Gerasimos.
But what characterizes the island is the Obelisk of stone of the Drapano bridge which lies in the Centre of the bridge, the bridge and the lighthouse of San Teodoro.
The Drapano village has different landscapes, a mountain, a Gulf, a small Bay, and slightly to the North there is an abandoned mine. To the South lies the Drapano bridge, which crosses the Koutavos Lake, is 900 m long and a succession of arches.
The bridge is built in stone, is from the time of British protection and is the gateway to the city of Argostoli. It is believed that it is a construction of the year 1813, carried out by the British Colonel of Bosse. The plate with all the data is currently lost. It was built with the aim of uniting Argostoli with the opposite shore.
No tourists can go without crossing the old and dilapidated Drapano bridge Argostoli.
The bridge is currently closed to traffic, only you can walking the public, to leave the city in locomotion you must surround the lagoon. The 1953 Ionian earthquake destroyed many buildings and killed many inhabitants of the city of Drapano.
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