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CHORA (Small town) PYTHAGORIO
Tel: +30 22730 91770
The village is built on the base of Karvounis; half of it is built
on the hill and the other half on the valley. The village offers an unobstructed
view of the lush green valley and the sea. The distance form Pythagorio and Mitilinioi
is 3 km respectively. Built on a crossroad of the main peripheral road of Samos
it is an important traffic junction.
Chora was the capital of Samos up until 1854 and from the building
of that era we still find the Metropolitan Church of Saint Paraskevi, the Building
of the Dieses and the churches of Saint Anna (1638), Saint Dimitrios (1605) and
Panagia (1608).
Other important buildings are:
The building of the Hegemony (until 1854) in Mesakis square.
The school built early 20th century.
The Mathina's Tower which was demolished but we can still see its entrance
(1749).
It's worth noting two stone bridges on the way to Pythagorio
and to Mitilinioi,
the public water fountains and washrooms in Platanos and in Mesaki and the water
tank of 1870.
Nowadays in Chora there are traditional bakeries, pastry shops, cafes,
bars and a variety of restaurants serving traditional Samian cuisine. During the
last 100 years, Chora has been the birthplace of three Patriarchs of Jerusalem
Ierotheos the 1st, Cirilos the 2nd and Timotheos the 1st. The famous poet and
translator of the Homer's epic work Odyssey, Zisimos Sideris was also born in
Chora.
POTOKAKI (Settlement) PYTHAGORIO
A small settlement by the sea and a renowned holiday destination for
thousand of tourists. Its beach, which begins from Pythagorio
and end in Iraion, is
considered by many one of the vastest beaches in the Aegean.
It has been repeatedly awarded the Blue Flag of the European Union as one of the
best beaches of the Mediterranean. Before its tourist development Potokaki was
a fishing settlement, where there were also small distilleries of and workshops
of white and green soap. During the era of Policratis Potokaki was considered
a "side port" and during the Hegemony it was the seaport of Chora.
This text is cited Febr 2004 from the Municipality of Pythagorio URL below, which contains image
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