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Extract from the Galaxdhi Travel Guides:
GALAXDHI
, a quiet port rearing mirage-like out of an otherwise lifeless shore 17km southwest of Ita, is the first place you'd want to break a journey voluntarily. The old town stands on a raised headland, crowned by the eighteenth-century church of yios Niklaos (the old, basilica-like one, not the more obvious belfryed structure), patron saint of sailors. With its protected double harbour, the place would have been irrestistible to early settlers, and sure enough you see stretches of Pelasgian walls - all that's left of
ancient Oianthe
- between the two churches and the water on the headland dividing the two anchorages. Am... read the whole Galaxdhi Travel Guides...
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