Zakynthos Travel 

Zakynthos also called Zante (Zahintos).  Twenty-five miles long, and twelve miles broad, with hills rising from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred feet above the sea, Zante is one of the most fertile of the Greek islands, and the vegetation is exceptionally luxuriant for the Mediterranean.  The climate is mild throughout the year.  Un fortunately Zante has been devastated by earthquakes that have occurred on an average every forty years for the past few centuries.

Like the other Ionian Islands, Zante bears many traces of the centuries of Venetian occupation, and of the half-century of the British protectorate.  There are seventeenthand eigh teenth-century Italian paintings in some of the churches of Zakintos, the capital, which has wide arcaded streets, and a certain number of Venetian palaces.  The inhabitants have kept up with their traditional crafts and regional music which has been influenced by contacts with the Italians in the past.  Hotels are very unpretentious.

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