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Zakinthos. All who came to the island fell under its spell. The Venetians baptized it "the flower of the orient" (Fior di' Levante). Others gave it just as evocative names like "earthly paradise" and "perfumed isle", while Dionysios Solomos, the father of modern Greek poetry a native son, wrote "Zakinthos could make one forget the Elysian fields".

No one who has been here can forget the emerald green of its sea, its pine-studded mountains, its musical people and their hospitality.