The old Vathy town

The old windmill in Mitilinii Samos

view from inside

This windmill is one of many in my Villege. Is my favorite since I always was able to see it from my window when I was child...



From Wikipedia:
A windmill is a machine which converts the energy of wind into rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. The main use is for a grinding mill powered by the wind, reducing a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains, by crushing, grinding, or pressing.Windmills have also provided energy to sawmills, paper mills, hammermills.

From outside

view from far away..

The stonework inside.

To the " Golden moon" - Scenic Sunday (s) in my City

Once at 1900 this house belongs to a trade man, bilded in the traditional clasic way of its time...

Today is the famous Bar Golden moon serving illusions to the customers...

Typical old house in Agios Konstantinos - Samos

The beautiful coastal settlement of Agios Konstantinos offers a very long beach and preserves elements of traditional architecture. The village was named after a church, built in 1890. Agios Konstantinos consists of two neighborhoods the one is 'Pano Agios' which is on the mountain and the other is coastal. The neibouring ravine Aidonia (Nightingale) is particularly beautiful. At nightfall, one can listen to the song of the nightingales. Agios Konstantinos along with Margarites, Valeontades, Manolates, Stavrinides and Ambelos were once the 'six-village neighborhood'. Now all this villages are separate communes, allthough Margarites and Valeontandes are almost abandoned. During the antique times, there used to be a large village in that beautiful area between mountain and sea. There are still remains of ancient buildings to prove that. The area produces wine, honey, chestnuts and many more. The people living there are mostly farmers or fishermen.

National Bank of Greece

Well, about the financial figures of this bank I cant say anything...
But I like so much this building, its realy a wonderfull house on the port of Samos town represents the architectural tradition of the Island.
I hoppe you like it too :)

Sun Clock in Manolates

We found it last summer on the church´s wall in the village of Manolates.
It is not so useful to report the time anymore ...but to keep some cables in ...place!! Times are changing...

Samos houses IV

The lovely coastal village of Pythagorion, on the southern part of the island, is full of whitewashed houses with blue shutters and doors. Archaic temples and wonderful Byzantine and Post-Byzantine churches full of splendid frescoes are completing the architecture of Samos.

info:http://www.samosguide.com/listingview.php?listingID=36

Samos houses III

In Vathy, capital of the island, Venetian houses are mixed to neoclassical ones and all the buildings have red-tiled roofs and some have their walls painted in bright colors. The narrow streets and stairs are also painted in white and blue and the walls of some houses are decorated with naive paintings

info :http://www.samosguide.com/listingview.php?listingID=36

Samos houses II

It is a blend of neoclassical mansions, Venetian buildings, whitewashed houses and Byzantine churches. Graphic narrow streets are winding around all those types of buildings, adding a warm and cozy touch to the whole scenery.

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Samos houses

The architecture of Samos resemble to the architecture of the other North-Eastern Aegean Islands. Samos does not have a specific traditional architecture, mostly because of the heterogeneous descent of the population of the island.It is a blend of neoclassical mansions, Venetian buildings, whitewashed houses and Byzantine churches. Graphic narrow streets are winding around all those types of buildings, adding a warm and cozy touch to the whole scenery.


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Old house-oven

An old house oven, seen in the village Drakei.
Some 50 years ago, many houses use to have such hand made primitive wood oven in order to cook their bread mainly and food.

Old balconi in Samos Town

Old house in Platanos