Mount Ainos in Kefalonia

Mount Ainos (1,628 m. elevation)           

Mount Ainos is the highest mountain in Kefalonia and the Ionian Islands. Mount Ainos’ tallest peak is Megas Soros.

The Mount Ainos is inaccessible and partly cloaked in dense, dark forests of Greek fir (Abies cephalonica), an endemic species. The wood from these trees was used for shipbuilding and attracted the attention of all the seagoing peoples who conquered the island.

The Venetians called Mount Ainos Monte Nero, or “Black Mountain”, due to its dark forests. Certain ancient authors called Kefalonia itself Melaena (“the Black”) for the same reason.

 

List of Mountains in Greece:

• Greek Mountains
• Mount Agrafa
• Mount Ainos
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Madares or White Mountains
• Mount Olympus
• Mount Parnassus
• Mount Parnitha
• Mount Pelion
• Mount Penteli
• Mount Pindos or Pindus
• Mount Psiloritis or Mount Ida
• Mount Taygetos