Zakinthos

[ Photo Blog  #68 ]

Zakynthos, or Zante,  is a Greek island in the Mediterranean’s southern Ionian Sea. The island’s capital is the coastal city, which is itself called Zakynthos.  It is centred around the waterfront area of Solomos Square.  I visited the island in 2006 and include below some of the photographs of the island and its capital which I took at that time.

Approaching Zakinthos from the sea

Rainbow over the island

Rainbow

Cypress trees in the wooded hills above the island’s capital

One of the island’s many tourist beaches

Harbour side – Fish fresh from the sea

Colourful fishing nets

A Bougainvillea-clad house in Solomos Square 

Bronze bust of a Greek Orthodox bishop outside the Church of St Agios Dionysios, Zakynthos

Statue of Liberty on Solomos square in Zakynthos city 

Close-up of ‘Liberty’

Jason’s long-lost and battered Argo perhaps !?

Zante’s turquoise sea

P&O ‘Arcadia’ at Zakinthos

 

On The Waterfront

Six of my Pen & Wash paintings – all of European coastal towns . . . 

Hydra, Greece, one of the Saronic Islands in the Aegean Sea  …   WHB

Blackpool, Lancashire, England  …   WHB.

Le Touquet, Normandy Coast, France  …  WHB

Oporto on the River Douro, Portugal  …  WHB.

Cobh and St.Colman’s Cathedral, nr. Cork, Eire  …  WHB

Yachting in the Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean  …  WHB