The wider tourist area of the Nydri plain is a total area of examination, since the divisions that used to exist in the past do not exist nowadays.
At the beginning of the century in particular, there were six houses in this two-kilometre area! Two in Steno and four in Nidri.
In the context of tourism development, however, the privileged position of the area did not take long to make it stand out.
Already at the beginning of the century, the German archaeologist William Deirpfeld began excavations in the area of the Strait, seeking to confirm his theory of Homer's Ithaca, which only he believed at the time.
Schliemann, a colleague of Deirpfeld, undertook the excavations in Troy that made him famous, while Deirpfeld could find nothing more than samples of the early Bronze Age (2000 BC).
The secret of Homer's Ithaca and the palace of Odysseus seems to be well kept. Perhaps the legends and traditions of the common people that speak of Penelope's golden loom, which is located in the bay of Vlychos, are worthy of future - inland - excavations.
However, the visit of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, Wilhelm Kaiser, to Nydri at the turn of the century (1917) was the beginning that foreshadowed the future of the region as the «Cannes» of Lefkada.
All the «JET SET» of famous personalities that have paraded through the area, starting from Aristotle Onassis who bought the island «Skorpios» as well as the heads of state and other personalities of various countries that occasionally flood the area, have created a tourist stream that increases year after year.