Kakome Beach

It is located on the Ionian coast, west of the village of Nivicë-Bubar, between Cape Qefali and Krorza. It represents a small sea bay, but quite picturesque.
It is a beautiful bay, inserted about 800 m into the ground and has a width that exceeds 300-400 m. Here there is a virgin shingle beach a few hundred meters away. The mountain slope in the south is covered with well-preserved natural vegetation, while the northern one is rocky, bare of trees, but has only birch (cfake) bushes. On this side there is an impassable causeway to Krorza beach, on which there is a church with the same name. You can get to Kakome beach by boat or cruise ship and by road. By speedboat, the distance from Saranda to Kakome is about 25 minutes, and by tourist boat 40 minutes. It is visited, following the branching of the national road Borsh-Saranda, from the village of Nivicë-Bubar-Gjiri i Kakomë.

From Saranda to Kakome, the distance is covered by vehicles in approximately 15-20 minutes. The road from the main road is well paved, about 5 minutes, while to the beach it is very smooth and you can go either on foot or by Foristrad. The name taken from the Greek which means “bad weather”, because on both sides of the bay when you enter in bad weather, strong water currents and winds are created which create a problem for ships. On this side there is an impassable causeway to Krorza beach, on which there is a church with the same name. To the east of the bay of Kakome there are two monasteries. The Monastery of Kakome or the Monastery of Saint Mary is located in the west of Mount Shënddëlli overlooking the Ionian Sea at a distance of 5 km from the coast and 3 km from the village of Nivicë Bubar and about 8 km from the city of Sanranda. The monastery was built near the sea at the beginning of the Kakome gorge, where today the ruins of the church of Saint Nicholas are located. In 1672, after pirate attacks, it was moved to today’s location in a safer position. The monastery was built in the 13th century on the ruins of an ancient temple. The main part of the monastery is a small church with a cross-shaped dome with four columns with one corner on each of the three sides, and with four internal columns on which rises the octagonal dome lit by four small windows. But the most important relic that the monastery had was the Gospel of Kakome. According to the historian Evangjelidhis, of Greek origin, the Gospel was handwritten on parchment and bound in 1562 by the brothers Zoto and Gjino from the village of Nivicë. The Gospel is written in the Byzantine language with characteristic letters, with a carved wooden cover, covered in gold and silver where the icons of the Evangelists are painted. On the first page is painted the icon of Saint Nicholas and around it the writing mentioning the emir of the brothers who worked on the book.
Today it is located in the National Library of Greece in the manuscripts section in Athens.