- Tzanata
Tzanata (Greek: Τζανάτα), rarely: Dzanata, a village in the Elios-Pronnoi municipality, sits at the junction of the roads to
Argostoli (36 km W), Sami (25 km N) and Poros (4 km E) in the southeast ofKefalonia , one of theIonian Islands ofGreece .Along with the neighbouring villages of Agia Eirini and Kabitsata, it is situated in a fertile plain between the hill villages of Agios Yiorgios and Pastra (W), Agios Nikolaos (N) and the port of Poros (E).
The village has a small school, community centre and community clinic; a sports stadium to serve the local area is slowly being completed. A mineral water spring (vrysi) fed from the ‘bottomless’ Avithos lake at Agios Nikolaos feeds a fountain in the plane tree sheltered
plateia (square) where the village festivals, served bysouvlaki stalls and the adjacenttaverna , are held in the summer months. Water from the surrounding mountains also feeds two reservoirs just outside the village, one completed in 2005 to feed the burgeoning summer demands of nearby Skala.In
1991 archaeologist Lazaros Kolonas, excavating in the Broutzi area of Tzanata, discovered a tholos (beehive) tomb from the Mycenaean period measuring 6.80 meters in diameter. Despite a claim that it's the burial place ofOdysseus it is generally believed to be the tomb of later royalty, circa1400 BC . Nevertheless, it is the most important historical find on Kefalonia (orIthaca ) to date. The site is signposted from the Tzanata-Poros road.As the road to Poros enters the impressive Poros gorge there is a rough vehicular track leading 4.5 km up to the oldest monastery, and oldest surviving building, on Kefalonia, the Atros Monastery.
Transport
Served by the fairly reliable, but infrequent,
Argostoli – Poros bus.Car and motorcycle/scooter hire available in Poros
Nearest places
*Agia Eirini and Kabisata, west
*Poros, eastCommunications
*Radio Kymata 100.9 (Tzanata)
*Cosmos FM (Poros)Geography
*Population: 174 (
2001 )
*Postal code: 280 86
*Elevation: 60 m
*Dialing code: ++30-26740-7xxxxPopulation
ee also
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List of settlements in the Kefalonia prefecture External links
* [http://kefalonia.foi.org.uk/toptrips.php?action=details&trip=Tzanata%20Tomb%20Heritage Tazanata Tomb Heritage – Friends of the Ionian]
* [http://marabu1.tripod.com/HISTORY.HTM Homeric Ithaca and the Tzanata tomb – Tripod]
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=6319 Basic data on Tzanata – gtp.gr]
* [http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=4373&lang=US Odysseus’ tomb found in Tzanata – Hellenic News of America]
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=6339 Kerameies on GTP Travel Pages] (in English and Greek)
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