Lefkas Town - GIC The Villa Collection

The old town of Lefkas, located at the Northern most tip of the island, is quite charming, with its mass of tiny streets and lanes, lined with traditional Lefkadian houses all painted in different pastel colours. This is a small town and it takes no more than 15 minutes to walk across it. A delightful boulevard, which is pedestrianised in the evenings, leads to the town square where there are many restaurants, cafes, bars and ice cream parlours. The town has a large Marina full of sailing boats and yachts. The town boasts a phonograph museum, a municipal art gallery, open-air theatre and a recently expanded archaeological museum. The town also hosts two cultural festivals which run in parallel - the International Folklore Festival and Speech & Arts Events. Both these festivals run from June to September but peak in August. Performers come from all over the world. The beaches on the West coast are only a few kilometres away.