Karfakis House

In the mountain village of Karya on Lefkada, the Karfakis House stands as a neoclassical mansion on A. Katopodi Street in the Stavrakata district, its name recording the families who have held it over time. Houses like this speak to an era when Greek island merchants and landowners built with ambition, borrowing classical forms for their doorways, windows and symmetrical facades. Nearby, excavation around the church of Agios Ioannis in 2000 revealed three simple pit graves on its east and north sides, a quiet reminder of the generations who lived and worshipped in this place.