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Location information
Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Sights
for destination: "PETRA
Small town
LESVOS".
Sights (3)
Houses
Vareltzidaina's Mansion
The mansion
of Vareltzidaina is situated in the centre of the village Petra and was built
in the end of the 18th century. It constitutes a characteristic example of that
period's mansions, in which typical features of local architecture are combined
with influences from the East as well as from North Greece.
It is a two-storeyed building, with a solid ground floor built with
stones, which adds a fort-like character to the habitation. The storey is constructed
with "bagdati" and is divided in six rooms parametric to the chamber, which are
decorated with remarkable and typical of the era frescoes. This extract is cited June 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains images.
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture WebPage
The "House of VALERETZIDAINA", at a short distance from the village
square, more or less next to the back of the rock of the Panagia, has retained
almost entirely its original form.This is a building of the turn of eighteenth-nineteenth
century. It belongs to the secular architecture of Lesvos
of the period of late Ottoman rule and combines local and Oriental features with
neo-Classicism, Byzantine architecture and baroque. It has a number of similarities
to the mansion of Georgios
Schwarz at Ambelakia in Thessaly, which was built in the late eighteenth century.
The traditional settlement of Petra takes on its own individual local colour from
the well-preserved neo-Classical mansions of the early twentieth century, with
their spacious well-planted court-yards, the carefully crafted railings and the
elaborated wrought-iron doors with variety of knockers. This text is cited Apr 2003 from the Municipality of Petra URL below, which contains images.
Traditional settlements
Klapados
From the abandoned mountain village of Klapados, which is in the southern
boundaries of the Municipality of Petra and was the site of the last victorious
battles of the Greek troops against the Turks in December 1912 for the liberation
of Lesvos, an enchanting ecological route starts out to Aghios Alexandros, through
a publicly-owned pine wood of great beauty. On this route, it is possible from
a high vantage point to appreciate the full grandeur of Anaxos,
Petra, Mithymna, and Eftalou.
Bush walking is an exciting experience beginning after Kaloni
where the pine trees start to appear, many signs to gate you through, kiosks and
rest locations are available. The view is panoramic, through the pine trees you
can observe all the northwest beaches and villages, on south the gulf of Kaloni,
on east the olive groves of the villages Stypsi
and Agia Paraskevi. This text is cited Apr 2003 from the Municipality of Petra URL below, which contains images.
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