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Meet Hydra and its quaint architecture ...
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The
city of Hydra, represents a big part of the Island's quaint
traditional architecture, which combines insular and land-lubber
characteristics.
Simple
houses and manors, differentiate with a quaint, but yet impressive
architecture,
which is
not met in other parts of Greece and abroad.
This architecture
is in every way unique and someone must come and see it for
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The
Manors of Hydra,stand witnesses to the economic bloomming
the Island had, during the end of the 18th century.
These
Manors stand imposing until today and impress with their
size and magnificence.
Also, they maintain their simplicity,
by keeping a lot of elements from the simple, plain houses,
but because of their size, they remind fortresses from the
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All
the manors of Hydra are stone made and usually they are three
or four stories tall, because of the sloping ground.
Most
of
the Manors have got external ladders, which lead to a flat
roof.
They have got rooms, which are spacy and high-ceiling.
These rooms have got decorations, such as wall paintings,
garlands,
painted wooden ceilings,
door cases and geometrical
drawings on the marple floor. |
In
the Manors there are seperated rooms for men and women,
a large lounge, one iconostasis and a special room for the
men to smoke nargile.
The Hydraian furniture was famous for
its quality and its excellent making and it gave magnificence
to the imposing houses of Hydra.
The Hydraian furniture were
brought from the West.
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The
simple houses are surrounded with yards, which have got fences.
The houses are plain,
parallelepipeds, with roofs from
tiles, eaves from porolitho and aclinic forefront.
In
the most houses of Hydra we also see cisterns, and marble
drinking fountains. |
Unique
piece of decoration in these houses is the white frame
around the windows, which is made from lime and it is
used to counteract the gray colour stone.
The main building
materials of Hydra and island Dokos is the grey stone, the
wood and "kokkina",
an argil mortar.
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The Manors of Hydra
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At
the east side of the harbour, you can see the Tsamados
Manor.
At the same side of the city, there is the Kriezis
Manor and the Manor of
Lazaros Kountouriotis, which is a part of
the museum of History.
To the town "kala pigadia", we can
see the Gorogianni Manor, with a living room of macedonian
type.
At the west side of the city, you can visit the four-stories
Manor of Tompazi, which belongs to the School of Arts, and
the Manors of Boulgari, Botsi and Oikonomou.
To the town
"Periptero", under the hill of Milos, you can admire the
beautiful Manor of George and Paul Kountouriotis, which is
build among the pine-trees and operates as a museum of modern
History.
Also west of the city of Hydra, we can see the Manor
of Bountouris, which it has got its own garden and
little church. |
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