Families of Old Xanthi
The route is about 2 km long, lasts about 80 minutes and is of moderate difficulty. In it you will meet the families of old Xanthi, which in various ways contributed to the history of Xanthi, but also to the form that the old town has today. Touring the residences of old families of Xanthi, unknown aspects of their family stories will unfold and important personalities of the city will be pulled out of oblivion.

Some of the most important Christian families are: Chasirtzoglou, Stalios, Sigalas, Valixoglou, Michaloglou, Metaxas, Leontaridis, Blatsios, Angelos, Alexiou, Kalevras, Kougioumtzoglou, Kaloudis, Adamides, Christidis, Karadimoglou, Alatas. Also important were the families of Ottoman officials, such as Hamdi Bey, Muzaffer Bey, Hilmi Pasha and Memet Pasha, as well as the Jewish families of Moses and the Cohens.

Thus, the population composition of the city, the religions combination that existed and exists until today, the economic and social stratification in relation to the type and form of residence and the type of professions that found fertile ground to develop will be revealed. Many names, marking streets in old Xanthi, will come alive through this route.

92. Shop and house – Nostos bar

Brief documentation:

The building on 5 Maletsidou Street was built at an unknown date. This two-storey building came into the possession of Aglaia Chalkia, née Patazios, as an inheritance from her father, as did the adjacent building. In the past and for many years the ground floor functioned as a carpentry, while today the building operates as a café and bar.
It is a two-storey building with neoclassical features and dominant symmetry. It consists of a ground floor, which was originally used as a shop, and a first floor which originally served as a living space. The first floor has a separate entrance, through a staircase from the ground floor and a covered balcony with protective ironwork and iron corbels to support it.
On either side of the balcony, there are protrusions of the floor, the characteristic western-style erkers. Two windows with French type shutters exist in these projections, with superimposed rectangular frames recessing under them and decorative stepped cornices. At the same time, a single stepped cornice crowns the façade of the building.


Category of thematic interest:  ARCHITECTURAL / HISTORICAL INTEREST


History:

The building on 5 Maletsidou street was built at an unknown date. The two-storey building came into the possession of Aglaia Chalkia, née Patazio, as an inheritance from her father. For many years the ground floor operated as a carpentry, while today the building operates as a café and bar. 


Elements of architecture:

 It is a two-storey building with neoclassical features. It consists of a ground floor, which was originally used as a shop, and a floor that was originally used as a residence. The first floor has a separate entrance, through a staircase from the ground floor and a covered balcony with iron and iron corbels supporting it.


Description of other elements:

On either side of the balcony, erkers are formed, which have two windows with decorative frames recessing below them and decorative stepped cornices. A stepped cornice crowns the façade of the building.


Purpose - Use: Residence, Commercial space


Characterization: ΥMATH/5385/24-11-1995, Government Gazette 1097/Δ/1995


Dating (period): Unknown


Year of construction: Unknown


Location of the monument: 41.14223, 24.88778


Bibliographic references:

•    Katsari-Vafiadis, J. Ed. 2023. "History and recording of the neoclassical buildings of the traditional settlement". Xanthi: Municipality of Xanthi, p. 80


 Address: Maletsidou 5


Visitable: Yes

 

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