Qualla: Fiskardo https://qualla.com/fiskardo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Fiskardo https://qualla.com/fiskardo Fiskardo: Introduction https://qualla.com/fiskardo/ A Norman duke died here in 1085 and gave the village his name, which may say something about the outsized impact visitors have had on this small harbour over the centuries. Robert Guiscard — Robertus Wiscardus, Duke of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily — sailed into the waters off northern Cephalonia and never sailed out. Whatever he came to accomplish was left undone. The village took his name, softened by Greek phonology into Fiskardo, and carried it forward through the next nine centuries of Venetian rule, earthquakes, and tourist season.

Read more: Fiskardo on Qualla

]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/d/fiskardo-wp/sqyd-fiskardo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fiskardo: The Village the Earthquake Spared https://qualla.com/fiskardo/ On 12 August 1953, an earthquake devastated the Ionian Islands. Argostoli, Lixouri, Sami — virtually every major settlement on Cephalonia was damaged or destroyed. Fiskardo, on the island's northernmost tip, survived almost untouched. No one is entirely sure why: perhaps its geol...

Read more: Fiskardo on Qualla

]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/d/fiskardo-wp/sqyd-fiskardo-the-village-the-earthquake-spared.mp3 0:06 2 full Fiskardo: Deep Under the Harbour https://qualla.com/fiskardo/ Fiskardo sits above layers of history it barely knew existed. The village had already been identified with the ancient town of Panormos, mentioned by Herodotus in the fifth century BC. Then in 2005, construction workers building a shopping complex near the harbour discovered a st...

Read more: Fiskardo on Qualla

]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/d/fiskardo-wp/sqyd-fiskardo-deep-under-the-harbour.mp3 0:06 3 full Fiskardo: A Warlord's Legacy https://qualla.com/fiskardo/ The Norman who gave the village its name was not a minor figure. Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, was among the most formidable military commanders of the eleventh century — the man whose campaigns in southern Italy and Sicily fundamentally reshaped the Mediterranean...

Read more: Fiskardo on Qualla

]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/d/fiskardo-wp/sqyd-fiskardo-a-warlords-legacy.mp3 0:06 4 full Fiskardo: The Poet and the Port https://qualla.com/fiskardo/ Nikos Kavvadias, the Greek poet and writer born in 1910 and dead in 1975, lived for a time in Fiskardo. He is best known for his sea poetry — verse drawn from years working as a radio operator on merchant ships, poems saturated with port towns and long voyages and the peculiar lo...

Read more: Fiskardo on Qualla

]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/d/fiskardo-wp/sqyd-fiskardo-the-poet-and-the-port.mp3 0:06 5 full Fiskardo: The Village Today https://qualla.com/fiskardo/ Fiskardo sits at the end of a two-kilometre bay of the same name, its rocky coast giving way inland to dense forested hills that are under legal protection as a landscape of great natural beauty. The ferry to Frikes on Ithaca leaves from here, connecting two islands with deep lit...

Read more: Fiskardo on Qualla

]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/d/fiskardo-wp/sqyd-fiskardo-the-village-today.mp3 0:06 6 full