Set in a whitewashed building with terracotta roof 300 metres from Lourdas Bay on Kefalonia Island, the family-run Lara hotel offers an outdoor pool and views of the Ionian Sea. A white-sand beach is just 200 metres away.

Every air-conditioned room has its own balcony with sea or garden views. Each room has a refrigerator, safety box and TV.

Guests can swim in the pool or enjoy a drink from the poolside bar. Public spaces have free Wi-Fi and include a kitchen and 2 living rooms with satellite TVs.

A breakfast buffet is served daily in the dining area or in the spacious terrace. There is also a pool bar that serves drinks, snacks and coffee.

Staff can offer information on sights and activities in the area. The village of Lourdata is at 150 metres. The ferryboat at Pesada, connecting to mainland Greece, is 9 km from the Lara. Kefalonia Airport is 25 minutes’ drive away and free private parking is available.

Hotel Rooms: 40

Lourdata Center located in the South of Kefalonia in the foothills of praise rising to over 1,826 meters. This configuration creates the summer while a stream of cool air from the sea to the warm slopes of the mountain and vice versa in winter warm air from the sea to the cold slopes of praise, while maintaining a temperate climate combined with abundant waters flowing from the mountain maintain a imitropiki vegetation. Until the war of 1940 Lourdata was the main supplier of vegetables to the opposite Peloponnesian coast and was the richest area of ​​Kefalonia. After the war began drilling brought plenty of cheap water in the Great Plains and Lourdata started to decline until 1953 when suffered total destruction of the deadly earthquake.

The only sights that survived is the beautiful little church of Agia Paraskevi, built in the 16th century and the earthquake of 1636 destroyed. It was rebuilt in the same place less than 11x5, 15m in 1953 and dropped two of the four walls of the devastating earthquake. In 1965 the walls were rebuilt and is in its current form. Surviving parts of the 16th century religious paintings. This church is located 800m from the hotel in July and celebrates the day when the Holy Friday is the feast of the village. Located 3,000 km from the hotel are the ruins of the once very rich monastery of Our Lady of Sisi, which was built by Saint Francis of Assisi, whose name is Sisi paraphrase of Assisi.

The monastery was rebuilt and among those who survived is a wonderful beautiful picture of the Virgin Mary. Every Easter Monday the abbot of the monastery with a procession carrying the image of believers in this church and the Vlachs Sunday after Easter to re-implement them in the castle church of St. George where he remains for three weeks until Sunday when the Samaritan woman to carry a Likewise in Sissi. During the transition and return the bells of the villages from which the beat goes joyfully.