Tzanata
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| Tzanata Τζανάτα |
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| Prefecture: | Kefalonia |
| Province: | Pronnoi |
| Municipality: | Eleios-Pronnoi |
| Municipal district: | Poros |
| Location: Latitude: Longitude: |
38.141 (38°8'30") N 21.76 (21°45'5") E |
| Population: (2001) Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality |
174 14.07% 4.53% |
| Altitude: -lowest: -centre: |
60 m (centre) near the settlement |
| Postal code: | 280 86 |
| Area/distance code: | 11-(00)30-26740-7xxxx |
| Car designation: | KE |
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 of Kefalonia, one of the Ionian Islands of Greece.
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 by souvlaki stalls and the adjacent taverna, 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 of Odysseus it is generally believed to be the tomb of later royalty, circa 1400 BC. Nevertheless, it is the most important historical find on Kefalonia (or Ithaca) 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.
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[edit] Transport
Served by the fairly reliable, but infrequent, Argostoli – Poros bus.
Car and motorcycle/scooter hire available in Poros
[edit] Nearest places
- Agia Eirini and Kabisata, west
- Poros, east
[edit] Communications
- Radio Kymata 100.9 (Tzanata)
- Cosmos FM (Poros)
[edit] Geography
- Location:
- Latitude: 38.141 (38°8'30) N
- Longitude: 20.76 (20°45'5) N
- Population: 174 (2001)
- Postal code: 280 86
- Elevation: 60 m
- Dialing code: ++30-26740-7xxxx
[edit] Population
| Year | Communal population | Change | Percent of the municipal district |
Percent of the municipality |
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| 1991 | 193 | - | - | - |
| 2001 | 174 | -19/-9.84% | 14.07% | 4.53% |
[edit] External links
- Tazanata Tomb Heritage – Friends of the Ionian
- Homeric Ithaca and the Tzanata tomb – Tripod
- Tzanata Mycenean grave – CephaloniaCenter.gr
- The Mycenean Tomb at Poros – Ionion.com
- Area map (in Greek) showing Tzanata – Kefalonia.net.gr
- Basic data on Tzanata – traveljournals.net
- Basic data on Tzanata – gtp.gr
- Odysseus’ tomb found in Tzanata – Hellenic News of America
- Mycenaean tomb, Tzanata - official community (Elios-Pronnoi) website
- Drakaina Cave, Poros - official community (Elios-Pronnoi) website
- Atros Monastery, Poros - official community (Elios-Pronnoi) website
- www.GoingGreek.info
- Kerameies on GTP Travel Pages (in English and Greek)
- Map and aerial photos
- Street map: Street map from Mapquest, LiveLocal or Google or Yahoo! Maps - street information are not available through these websites
- Satellite images : Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available since mid-2006
- Coordinates:
[edit] See also
| The municipality of Eleios-Pronnoi |
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| Greece | Ionian Islands | Kefalonia | Sami? | Eleios-Pronnoi |
