Dinos House

High in the mountains of Achaia, in the village of Aroania near Kalavryta, the stone shell of Dinos House recalls the Byzantine era, when the Peloponnese was a patchwork of small fortified settlements and rural estates. Its surviving walls and arched openings suggest a substantial residence, built of local stone and mortar. Now a protected building in Greece, the mansion stands as a quiet relic of medieval domestic life, far from the great churches whose frescoes artists were restoring in the same centuries, and it rewards the traveler who seeks it out.