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Modern Description: To the south from the junction with the road from Avgónyma, the coast road heads 11 km south to Vessa, passing the protected and sandy Bay of Lithí (6 km) where there is a small harbour, good bathing and several fish tavernas, well-known for their fresh locally-caught fish. The bay is the alluvial mouth of a small fertile plain to the south which was the ‘kambos' for the small community of Lithí, on the hillside to the southeast. The village has enviable sunset views. Andreas Syngros, the 19th century philanthropist and banker who was instrumental in financing the completion of the Corinth Canal in 1893, was from this village; his Athenian residence is now the Greek Foreign Ministry and the principal artery from Athens to Faliron and Piraeus, ‘Syngrou Avenue', is named after him.

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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