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| Destinations Guide |
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| Information on the specific area
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| Information about the place
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| Educational institutions WebPages |
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| Sights
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The Arta Bridge
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It is the most important greek bridge, well-known due to the famous legend of the chief-builder, known not only in Greece and Balkan but in other countries too.
Its history goes back in time even before the roman period, maybe in the times of Pyrros, the king of Epirus. Obviously this should be the bridge that Plinios mentioned in his writings. During the centuries, the Arta Bridge has been restored and extended many times.
The last restoration was in 1612. A lot of folkloric essays, theatrical plays and operas were written about this famous bridge and the legend following it.
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The castle
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| Culture & Art Centres
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Archaeological Museum of Arta
Tel: +30 26810 21191, 71700
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Fax: +30 26810 21191, 71700
The newly built museum is located on the outskirts of the modern city, near the banks of the Arachthos river
and at a short distance from the renowned medieval bridge of Arta. The building was erected between 1999-2006 to house
the antiquities from the wider region of Arta that the archaeological research brought to light. The exhibits cover a time span
from the Palaeolithic period (600000 - 10000 BC) until the late antiquity (4th century AD).
The exhibition - organized thematically and chronologically - focuses on the ancient Ambrakia, following its evolution
through time from the establishing and flourishing of the ancient city to its final destruction and abandonment. Through the material
remains of the past arise the most important aspects of the public and private life of the ancient inhabitants. In their majority, the exhibits
- both works of art and humble objects of everyday use - derive from the city and the cemeteries of ancient Ambrakia, from the cave of
"Koudounotrypa" and from other sites of the prefecture of Arta.
Among the most important exhibits of the museum are:
- Funerary stelae, such as the stele found on the tomb of Damon, son of Alexion, in the west cemetery of ancient Ambracia. Dated to the
3rd or 2nd century BC.
- Marble statuette of Aphrodite, found during the excavation of a house of the ancient city. Dated to the 2nd century BC.
- Inscribed pedimental stele from the temple of Apollo. It preserves
part of the text of a treaty which determines the borders between Ambracia and Charadros. Dated after 167 B.C.
- Clay figurine moulds and their contemporary casts from the workshop of Satyros, a 4th century BC sculptor.
- Clay figurines and relief plaquettes from the cave of "Koudounotrypa". The cave served as a sanctuary dedicated to the Nymphs, Hermes
and Pan during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. The finds were offerings to the deities.
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Skoufas Folk Arts Museum
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Skoufa History Museum
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| Places of worship
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St. Theodora
Photo Album in URL, information in Greek only.
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St. Basil
Photo Album in URL, information in Greek only.
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Single-aisled basilica
with two conched chapels, the south dedicated to St. Gregory and the north to
St. John Chrysostomos. The walls are lavishly decorated on the outside with patterns
in brick and tile. Two glazed clay icons were preserved on the pediment of the
east side; the first depicts the three Hierarchs and the second the Crucifixion.
They are exhibited now in the Byzantine Museum of Ioannina. The interior is decorated
with wall paintings dated to the 17th century.
The church is located in the old quarter of the Tourkopazaro, in Arta.
It was built at the end of the 14th century A.D. During the 17th century, the
"Greek School" of the scholar Castorianos Manolakis was established in its precinct.
The first scholars to mention the church of St. Bazil in modern times are the
Russian archimandrite Antoninos in 1886 and the metropolitan bishop Serapheim
in 1884.
In 1979 the frescoes were cleaned and restored, in 1980 the roof was
repaired and the masonry was consolidated. In 1991 the roof was reconstructed,
and in 1994 the electrical installation was completed. Today the monument is used
as a church but liturgy takes place only on the day of its patron saint.
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Church of Agios Vasilios Ghefyras
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Saint Marcos
It is a small church built in 1770.
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Church of Paregoretissa (Our Lady of Consolation)
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church belongs to the octagonal, cross-in-square type. As seen from outside
it is a rectangular, almost cubic building but the interior is extremely elegant
and lavishly decorated with wall paintings and sculptures. The mosaic representation
of Christ Pantocrator surrounded by Prophets is preserved on the dome,
and wall paintings made by the painter Ananias, dated to the 16th century, have
survived inside the sanctuary. Fragments of various other wall
paintings, dating from the 17th century, can be seen in the naos.
The church was built in the 13th century, during the reign of the
dynasty of Comnenos Doukas, and became the metochion (dependence) of the Kato
Panaghia monastery, when it went bankrupt. It is mentioned for the first time
as a convent for nuns in a sigillium (decree) of Patriarch Jeremiah II, dating
from 1578.
In the last five years, excavations have been carried out in the precinct
of the church. In 1989, several trenches were opened in the floor of the building.
In 1977, the wooden door of the west side was replaced, the cells were restored
and the electrical installation was completed. In 1991, the interior south-west
part of the church was consolidated and some of the wall paintings were cleaned
and restored. The church and the refectory (Trapeza) of the monastery are used
as a museum.
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| Biography
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Karapanos Alexandros
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1873 - 1946
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Karapanos Konstantinos
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1840 - 1914
He was an economist and archaeologist.
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| Members of the Filiki Heteria (Society of Friends) |
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Anastasiou Chatzigiannis
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Zervas Napoleon
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1891 - 1957
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| Useful Information
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| Local governments
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| Municipalities' district offices |
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| Selected tourism enterprises
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