In the neighborhoods of Agios Vlasios and Agios Georgios
The route is about 1 km long, lasts about 60 minutes and is of moderate difficulty. In it, the visitor will discover the influence of the Greek Orthodox community on the urban fabric of old Xanthi.

Focusing on the two Orthodox churches of Agios Vlasios and Agios Georgios, two homonymous districts were developed, with buildings of rich tobacco merchants, who benefited the two churches respectively.

These neighborhoods were inhabited by members of the rising class of tobacco merchants, who built large mansions such as those of Michaloglou and Karabetsis. The development of these neighborhoods around religious and at the same time social centers, in a multicultural context, led to the diverse urban landscape that the visitor will encounter, starting from the Mansion of Hamdi Bey and highlighting various points around G. Ladas or Antikas Square.

76. Shop and home

Brief documentation:

The building was built at an unknown time. The ground floor is used as a shop, while the first floor is used as a residence.
The building is a narrow building with ground floor and first floor. It is a building with neoclassical elements, evident especially on the façade of the first floor, where there are false pilasters and false capitals framing the three openings on Venizelou Street. There are separate balconies in front of the openings of the floor. What is characteristic is the prismatic end of the right side of the floor. Also, a decorative band with cornices runs around the floor, under the stepped cornice of the roof.
The entrance to the residence on the first floor is made from the side, through a courtyard and staircase, which have protective decorative railings.
The ground floor housed the Balkan Art Gallery for some years. This gallery, which operates in the wider region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, is an
Arts meeting place. It provides opportunities for artists from Greece and abroad who are active in the visual arts, music and other arts to produce innovative proposals, ideas and their applications.


Category of thematic interest:  ARCHITECTURAL / HISTORICAL INTEREST


History:

The building was built at an unknown time. The ground floor is used as a shop, while the first floor is used as a residence.


Elements of architecture:

The building is a narrow building with ground floor and first floor. It is a building with neoclassical elements, evident especially on the façade of the first floor, where there are false pilasters and false capitals framing the three openings on Venizelou Street. There are separate balconies in front of the openings of the floor. What is cCharacteristic is the prismatic end of the right side of the floor. Also, a decorative band with cornices runs around the floor, under the stepped cornice of the roof.
The entrance to the residence on the first floor is made from the side, through a courtyard and staircase, which have protective decorative railings.


Description of other elements:

The ground floor housed the Balkan Art Gallery for some years. This gallery, which operates in the wider region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, is a meeting place for the arts. It provides opportunities for artists from Greece and abroad who are active in the visual arts, music and other arts to produce innovative proposals, ideas and their applications.


Purpose - Use: Residence, Cultural space, Commercial space


Characterization: Preservable, Institution of the Ministry of Culture, Decision DILAP/C/2409/42461, Government Gazette 583/92


Dating (period): Unknown


Year of construction: Unknown


Location of the monument: 41.14114708449973, 24.88683459442807


Bibliographic references:

•    "Xanthi the city with a thousand colors", Dimitris Mavridis (ed.), Cultural Development Center of Thrace, 2008
•    "Houses of Xanthi", Dimitris Mavridis, Municipal Development Enterprise of Xanthi, Holy Metropolis of Xanthi and Peritheoriou, 2009 


 Address: Eleftheriou Venizelou 6


Visitable: No

 

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