Vitsentzos Kornaros House
In the Lasithi landscape near Siteia, the Vitsentzos Kornaros House stands as a Byzantine-era mansion, a rare survivor of eastern Crete's domestic arc…
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In the Lasithi landscape near Siteia, the Vitsentzos Kornaros House stands as a Byzantine-era mansion, a rare survivor of eastern Crete's domestic arc…
Standing on a plateau of olive trees and low scrub between the villages of Kato Malaki, Ano Malaki and Kalonyktis, fifteen kilometres south of Rethymn…
In the village of Katochori, within the municipality of Chania in western Crete, stands a Byzantine mansion known locally as Épavli. Its stone walls r…
The Chronis House is a Byzantine mansion in the fortified town of Mystras in Laconia, a place that flourished in the thirteenth through fifteenth cent…
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 Peloponn…
In the mountain village of Kertezi, within the Municipality of Kalavryta, stands a Byzantine-era mansion that once belonged to the fighter Anagnostis …
In Kalavryta, Achaia, the Palace of Palaiologina, known locally as the Archontiko, is a rare surviving example of Byzantine domestic architecture, a s…
In Arta, a city that stands on the site of ancient Ambracia, a Corinthian colony founded in the seventh century BCE, the Trouba House preserves the re…
The Chamkos Mansion, or Tower of Hamko, stands in the upper part of Konitsa as a three-storey fortified koulia, a stone tower house of distinctly defe…
In the mountainous terrain of Voio, near Siatista in Kozani, the Argyris House stands as a striking example of early 19th century residential architec…
On Dimogherontias Street in Kozani stands the Grigorios Vourkas Mansion, a protected residence that embodies Byzantine-era domestic architecture in no…
In Eratyra, within the Kozani region, the Pepos House stands as a Byzantine mansion whose stones rest on far older ground. The site beneath it belonge…
On the northern slopes of Mount Idi, some thirty kilometres from Rethymno, stands a rather poorly preserved Byzantine tower within the archaeological …
In the heart of Chania, Crete, stands a neoclassical mansion belonging to Eleftherios Venizelos, one of the most prominent figures in modern Greek his…
The Fikiori Mansion is a neoclassical residence on Theodorakopoulou Street in Magula, in the Municipality of Sparta, Laconia. As a modern-era mansion,…
In the village of Kranidi, within the Argolis region of the Peloponnese, House Kranidi stands as a marble-built neoclassical mansion from the modern e…
In the mountain village of Valtesiniiko, within the Municipality of Gortynia in Arcadia, this neoclassical mansion stands as a quietly commanding pres…
In Lavrio, on the eastern coast of Attica, the Foreman's Residence stands as a neoclassical mansion from the modern era, its bronze elements lending q…
On Aristotelous Street in Corinth stands a neoclassical mansion, a domestic relic of the modern era. Its symmetrical facade, with a central entrance a…
Chaïdari Palace, part of the former Tatoi royal estate in Attica, is a historic summer retreat on Mount Parnitha. It was the birthplace of King George…
The Maisonette Building is a modern marble mansion at the junction of Athanasiadou and Tsakona streets in Penteli, on the northern edge of Athens. Its…
Set in the Corinthia region within the Municipality of Xylokastro-Evrostini, the Angelos Sikelianos Villa is a neoclassical mansion built in 1916. Its…
On Tatoiou Street in Kifissia, among the leafy northern suburbs of Athens, the Pavlos Melas House stands as a stately neoclassical mansion from the mo…
The neoclassical mansion at the Achaia Clauss winery complex in Patras dates to 1861, a piece of Greece's modern industrial age built to serve one of …
High on a mountain slope in Dilinata, some 400 metres above sea level on Cephalonia, this rural mansion speaks to the ambitions of a prosperous island…
In Aliartos, Boeotia, a neoclassical mansion stands as the former urban residence and auxiliary building of the Lake Copais Co Ltd, a reminder of the …
On the island of Kefalonia, in the village of Assos within the Sami municipality, a Neoclassical mansion rises with quiet confidence. Its facade is a …
In the village of Phylla, on the island of Euboea, a neoclassical mansion stands as a modest monument to modern Greek domestic architecture. Local tra…
In the mountain village of Karya on Lefkada, the Karfakis House stands as a neoclassical mansion on A. Katopodi Street in the Stavrakata district, its…
In Kamaria, on the island of Euboea, a neoclassical mansion stands as a quiet reminder of the island's modern era. Recorded as the presumed property o…
On the low hill of Agia Paraskevi, at the north-west edge of Pappados village, west of the bay of Gera, stand the remains of a medieval fortification …
This two-story mansion in Amaliapoli, a village on the western shore of the Pagasetic Gulf in Magnesia, recalls a layered past. Amaliapoli was once th…
In Tsagarada, a village of chestnut trees and mountain air on the Pelion peninsula, the Xiradakis Mansion stands as a fine neoclassical residence in t…
In Zagora, on the slopes of Pelion in Magnesia, the Kassavetis Mansion stands as a well-preserved example of the region's neoclassical domestic archit…
Mon Repos Villa brings together two distant chapters of Corfu's past in one setting. The neoclassical mansion speaks to the island's modern era, its e…
Villa Fontana in Skripero, Corfu, is a neoclassical mansion whose Greek name records it as a building complex presumed to have belonged to the brother…
In the Zagori region of Ioannina, the Mansion of Monodendri stands as a neoclassical residence from the 19th century, a proud survivor of the modern e…
In Tsepelovo, a village of the Zagori municipality in Ioannina, the Christos Vlachopoulos House stands as a marble-built mansion of the modern era. It…
On Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Street in Tsotyli, a village of the Kozani region in northern Greece, this Neoclassical mansion stands as a prot…
In Tsotyli, a village of stone and slate in the Voio hills of Kozani, the Garaina Mansion stands as a protected monument of northern Greek architectur…
In Theologos, on the island of Thasos, the facades of the Konaki Building rise as a refined example of neoclassical design. This mansion from the mode…
In the village of Rachoni on Thasos, the Mansion of Karamanidis stands as a neoclassical house from the modern era, its Greek name carrying a chain of…
In the Lasithi region of eastern Crete, near Siteia, the De Mezzo Villa preserves the remains of a Byzantine mansion, a domestic landmark from the cen…
In Rethymno, the House of the Four Martyrs carries the memory of a Byzantine mansion raised around 1400, a survivor from the last centuries of Byzanti…
High in the White Mountains above the Sfakia coast, the House of Kalliopi Geronimaki stands as a Byzantine mansion in Nomikiana, a tiny settlement at …
At Rizvan Metochi near Rethymno, the remains of a Byzantine mansion speak of rural authority in an age when land and defense were inseparable. The com…
The Byzantine chapel of the Ascension in Alikampos, a mountainous village 40 km from Chania at 310 metres in the foothills of the White Mountains, pre…
In the village of Alikampos in the Chania region of Crete, the weathered shell of a Byzantine mansion stands as a quiet witness to domestic life in th…
At Giannoudi near Rethymno, this Byzantine mansion survives as a quiet witness to the secular life that flourished alongside the region's monasteries …
The House at Atsipopoulo is a rare surviving example of domestic Byzantine architecture on Crete, preserved as a protected building in the village of …
Standing in the Apokoronou municipality of the Chania region on Crete, this Byzantine mansion recalls the domestic architecture of a civilization that…
In Vaphes, a village in the Apokoronou region of Chania, the House of S. Boundourakis stands as a Byzantine mansion whose story reaches well beyond it…
In the village of Rodia, set in the hills of the Gazi district west of Heraklion, stands a Byzantine mansion complex that speaks of Crete's middle era…
In the village of Kalathenes, in the Chania region of Crete, the Papantonakis Mansion stands as a rare surviving example of a Byzantine domestic resid…
In the village of Kalyves, within the Municipality of Apokoronos in Chania, the House of Stylianos Botonarakis stands as a Byzantine mansion in the fo…
Villa Trevisan in Kissamos, Chania, preserves the memory of Byzantine domestic life on Crete. This protected mansion, known in Greek as Βίλλα Τρεβιζάν…
High on the Rodopos peninsula, at the northernmost tip of Crete, a Byzantine-era mansion stands as a designated ancient monument within the municipali…
On the island of Rhodes, at 7-9 Kistiniou Street, a Byzantine mansion recalls the medieval centuries when the island served as a cultural and strategi…
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