From Lepanto to Port Andromaki
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Lo que dice el Arxiduc:
“The flat lighthouse or fiumara point is very long, and, as can be seen by the pallid color of its waters, the river enters the sea on its western side. There are a lot of tree branches and trunks on the shore, dragged there by the sea. On the outer, sandy point is the lighthouse with its red light, rising up in a column of steel. It is lit every night; three lighthouse guards take care of it and live in the small house below. The entire broad and wide surface is called Pilala. It is swampy, brackish, with a lot of reeds and covered in rushes and tamarisk. Cows graze freely around here. They suddenly and placidly sunbathe in the salty beach or disappear among the tamarisk. In the middle is the rancher’s small house.”
“In front of us is Parnassus, covered in snow, and there we see Port Andromaki, closed in by a chain of bare hills. It has a broad entrance facing the east and is closed to the gulf by the end of Point Andromaki. To the right is a small, double inlet; the least important one is called Rosich. When one has reached the extreme inside and sloped port of the point protecting the port on the gulf side, Cape Nikolas then arises, and one is completely protected. In the middle of the port is a small rocky point with two thalwegs, with fields and olive trees. Port Andromaki is an excellent place to dock for those boats that want to go to Galaxidi but cannot enter there because of the strong winds from the northwest. [There are no houses here; they’re in Galaxidi. Here there are only olive trees and a single juniper= Juniperus phoenicea]
Datos proyecto Nixe III:
Upon leaving Lepanto, there is a stretch of land closing off the bay. In fact, it’s the small delta the Archduke mentioned. The best place from which to observe it in the past was from the lighthouse once found at the top of Lepanto’s fortress. We can see it to the left of our image.
We head towards Galaxidi which isn’t far from Lepanto. The first thing we see upon reaching the large bay preceding Galaxidi is the city of Etea found at the back and to the right. This is the city the Archduke referred to as Salona. A bit farther in front of where we took our image of Etea, we can see the small Andromaki Bay. There are still no houses there. In the opposite direction is Parnassos Mountain, today an important ski resort.
Just before entering Galaxidi Bay, a small island with a church in ruins stands out. When turning towards Galixidi, we see a small reef on which someone has placed a large rock with a depiction of a dolphin on it.
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