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Solomos museum
Platía Ayíou Márkou • Daily 9am-2pm • €3
This impressive museum is devoted to the life and work of Solomos and other
Zakynthian luminaries. It shares its collection of manuscripts and personal effects with
an eponymous museum on Corfu (see p.709), where Solomos spent most of his life.
There are also plenty of photographs and paintings of notable islanders.
The kástro
Daily: June-Sept 8am-8pm; Oct-May 8.30am-3pm • €1.50
Zákynthos's massive kástro broods over the hamlet of Bóhali on its bluff above the
town. The ruined Venetian fort has vestiges of dungeons, armouries and fortifications,
plus stunning views in all directions. Its shady carpet of fallen pine needles makes it a
great spot to relax or picnic.
ARRIVAL AND INFORMATION
ZÁKYNTHOS TOWN
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By bus The bus station is inconveniently located nearly
2km up from the seafront, near the hospital.
Destinations Athens (5-6 daily; 5hr 30min); Pátra (4 daily;
3hr); Thessaloníki (3 weekly; 12-13hr).
By ferry The ferry quay is at the southern end of the town's
seafront.
Services The tourist police is in the main police station,
halfway along the seafront. They can supply basic
information and keep a list of accommodation (May-Oct
daily 8am-10pm; T 26950 24482).
ACCOMMODATION
The Room Owners Association ( T 26950 49498) can be contacted for accommodation around town and all over the island.
Some of the best hotels are in the quiet Repára district, just north of the centre.
Egli Loútzi T 26950 28317. Smallish hotel whose
entrance is just off the seafront, tucked in beside the
gargantuan Strada Marina , tho ugh some of its clean,
compact rooms face the harbour. €40
Ì Palatino Kolokotróni 10, Repára T 26950 27780,
W palatinohotel.gr. Classy and surprisingly good-value
place, which has beautifully furnished rooms with all mod
cons and ritz y common areas. Ample buffet breakfast
included. €70
Plaza Kolokotróni 2, Repára T 26950 45733,
W plazazante.gr. Barely 50m from the town beach, this
pleasant four-storey hotel has comfortable, modern rooms,
some with sea-faci ng ba lconies, and a relaxing lobby café.
Breakfast included. €60
EATING AND DRINKING
Ì Arekia Dhionyssíou Romá T 26950 26346. Beyond
the town beach, this cosy, welcoming taverna offers a
succulent range of fresh grilled meat and fish, but the real
reason to come is for the best nightly kantádhes to be heard
anywhere. Daily 8pm-2am.
Iy Padella Dhessylá 15 T 26950 23356. Just a couple of
blocks inland south of the main square, this simple
estiatório offers wholesome home cooking at the best
prices in town. Daily 11am-midnight.
Iy Thymalos Lombárdhou 78 T 26950 26732. Huge
seafront taverna with a nautical theme and pavement
seating, where you can feast on imaginative prawn and
crab salad, plenty of quality fish and some Cypriot dishes
such as seftaliá . March-Nov daily noon-2am.
Komis Bastoúni tou Ayíou T 26950 26915. Across the quay
from Áyios Dhionýsios, this upmarket favourite serves unusual
seafood dishes like clams and urchins, along with multiple
mezédhes and good barrelled wine. Daily noon-2am.
NIGHTLIFE
Base Platía Ayíou Márkou T 26950 42409. Perennially
busy favourite, in a prime location, which plays an eclectic
dance mix at night, while its daytime café mode is more
prone to rock and ethnic sounds. Daily 11am-late.
Iy Proza 21 Maïou 23 . Lively upstairs rock bar where black
is the colour apart from the startling metallic pipework, the
drinks are fairly cheap and the soundtrack is mostly
punkish and indie. Daily 10pm-late.
The Vassilikós peninsula
The busy southern end of the island's most noticeable feature is the Vassilikós
peninsula , which points in somewhat phallic mimicry of Florida towards the
 
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