On the coastal road of Poros, between Mikro Neorion and Aspros Gatos (White Cat), you can see a red house. Villa Galini is an elegant neoclassical villa that hosted writers and artists. The house was designed by the Olympic medalist and significant Greek architect Anastasios Metaxas. Metaxas was the architect who restored the Panathenaic Stadium. He designed the Benaki Museum, Syngrou hospital and other famous buildings of Athens.
26/09/2019
On the coastal road of Poros, between Mikro Neorion and Aspros Gatos (White Cat), you can see a red house. Villa Galini is an elegant neoclassical villa that hosted writers and artists. The house was designed by the Olympic medalist and significant Greek architect Anastasios Metaxas. Metaxas was the architect who restored the Panathenaic Stadium. He designed the Benaki Museum, Syngrou hospital and other famous buildings of Athens.
09/10/2018
Poros and the surrounding area of Troezen, is known for its citrus, especially its lemons. Lemon exports from the famous Lemonodasos, were made to Constantinople and Smyrna from the early 19th century and until recently to countries such as the Soviet Union and Germany. Nowadays that the price of lemon has decreased, its production has shrunk.
09/10/2018
The cultivation of olives is dating since ancient times, in the broader northeastern Peloponnese and the islands of the Saronic Gulf. Indicative is the reference made by ancient traveler Pausanias.
09/10/2018
One of the most traditional products of Greece is considered to be the jam-like “Spoon sweets”. This way the housewives, were preserving fruits and nuts left-overs from harvests, by keeping them for long time into the syrup. Since Poros is known for its citrus, spoon sweets made with bitter orange and mainly lemon, are local products of the island.
08/10/2018
Konstantinos Parthenis is ranked among the 20th century’s most distinguished Greek painters. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1878, Parthenis first visited Poros in 1903 and returned to the island on several occasions.
08/10/2018
The first governor of the newly established Greek State. In January of 1828 he arrived in Poros and temporarily established his temporary government, staying in the Kolokouvaros family house.
08/10/2018
Antiquity’s most famed orator, Demosthenes was born in Athens in 384 B.C. and opposed Philip of Macedon’s expansionism in southern Greece. Demosthenes sought with his Philippic orations to persuade the Athenians to fight to preserve their independence, but this policy failed and Athens fell to Philip in the 338 B.C. Battle of Chaeronea.
08/10/2018
George Seferis, a Nobel laureate poet and one of the most distinguished figures in modern Greek literature, has strong links to Poros. His work Kichli (The Thrush, 1947) was inspired by a small shipwreck at Daskalio islet which he witnessed during his stay at Villa Galini.
