Kefallini

The tower at Kefallini

Even if the rumour didn't pan out, the generally reliable host of my appartment in Vasiliki had told us there once had been a tavern or something similar in Kefallini where people gathered, so it could still be in the running for the place of assembly. We took a closer look and there's a well and a nice view over the bay, so it would be suitable for strategic purposes.

As we walked further down from Kefallini, we found more ruins, into one of which we climbed and discovered a house attached to some kind of tower.

We sat down near the well to eat a sandwich, then started on our journey back to Vasiliki. Nowadays any excess water is collected in a big reservoir and we decided to take a closer look. While struggling to walk around the reservoir, because the bushes and reeds were thick and difficult to penetrate, we accidentally came across some ruins of a house between the chapel of Kefallini and the reservoir.

It really was a perfectly acceptable location for a place of assembly, but much like everyone else we asked about the place had said, including a farmer working his fields of olive trees next to Kefallini, there wasn't much else to find.

We also noticed a strange wall on either side of the path to the chapel, so if there were houses and walls here, perhaps there could've been a tavern as well.

It was all so overgrown by almost impenetrable bushes and covered by trees, we had passed it on our way up without noticing, but clearly Kefallini was more than just a well, it was a hamlet.

Great, so we made a discovery, it just doesn't help us, because it can't be Rumor's tower! Back to square one, where next to look for the place of assembly.

The tower specifically attracted our attention, could this have been from where Rumor addressed the assembly?

My helpful host called an archeologist, Barbara (Varvara), who came to examen the tower a few days later: "It's an old watermill, about 150 years old, we didn't know it existed, it is not on our maps." The strange wall appeared to be the aquaduct from the well to the tower of the watermill.