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In the neighborhoods of Agios Vlasios and Agios Georgios
The route is about 2 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 the Michaloglou Mansions, the Karabetsis Mansion with its painted exterior decoration and the majestic Mansion of Hilmi Pasha.

The development of these districts around religious and at the same time social centers, in a multicultural regime, led to the diverse urban landscape that the visitor will encounter. The route starts from shops that existed in the commercial part of these districts, passes by mansions, such as the mansion of Hamdi Bey, and ends by highlighting various points around G. Ladas or Antikas Square.

32. P. Stalios Mansion – Democritus University of Thrace Building

Brief documentation:

The mansion was built in the last quarter of the 19th century by the tobacco merchant Panagiotis Stalios as his residence. The place hosted in the 1990s a well-known café-bar.
P. Stalios, born in 1812, was an important benefactor of the city, with rich social and cultural work. He built another mansion opposite 5 Venizelou Street, while he gave money for the construction in 1881 of a kindergarten (today's 1st Kindergarten of Xanthi) in Mitropoleos Square, behind the Matsinis school, i.e. today's 1st Primary School of Xanthi. The same benefactor donated the original land where the cemetery of Xanthi stands today.
The Stalios mansion is a peculiar building with a curved pediment, an element found in Northern Thrace. At the curved end of the roof, which is the characteristic of its façade, the attic is formed, with three arched openings in the center and four small square windows, placed on the same vertical axes as those of the first floor. The building today belongs to the Democritus University of Thrace.
The mansion has a public fountain on its back side, on Agiou Georgiou Street, with the marble dedicatory inscription "1885. P. STALLIOU".

Category of thematic interest:  ARCHITECTURAL / HISTORICAL INTEREST

History:

The mansion was built in the last quarter of the 19th century by the tobacco merchant Panagiotis Stalios as his residence. The place hosted in the 1990s a well-known café-bar.
P. Stalios was an important benefactor of the city, with rich social and cultural work. He built another mansion opposite 5 Venizelou Street, while he gave money for the construction in 1881 of a kindergarten (today's 1st Kindergarten of Xanthi) in Mitropoleos Square, behind the Matsinis school, i.e. today's 1st Primary School of Xanthi. The same benefactor donated the original land where the cemetery of Xanthi stands today. 

Elements of architecture:

The Stalios mansion is a peculiar building with a curved pediment, an element found in Northern Thrace. At the curved end of the roof, which is the characteristic of its façade, the attic is formed, with three arched openings in the center and four small square windows, placed on the same vertical axes as those of the first floor. The building today belongs to the Democritus University of Thrace.

Description of other elements:

The mansion has a public fountain on its back side, on Agiou Georgiou Street, with the marble dedicatory inscription "1885. P. STALLIOU".

Purpose - Use: Residence, Commercial space, University building

Characterization: Preservable, Institution of the Ministry of Culture, Decision DILAP/C/393/7562, Government Gazette 236/89

Dating (period): Last quarter of the 19th century

Year of construction: 1885

Location of the monument: 41.14132, 24.88713

Bibliographic references:

•    Katsari-Vafiadis, J. Ed. 2023. "History and recording of the neoclassical buildings of the traditional settlement". Xanthi: Municipality of Xanthi, p. 136

 Address: Eleftheriou Venizelou 2

Visitable: No

 

31. Two-storey brick house 31. Two-storey brick house 33. Mansion of D. Chasirtzoglou – Lyceum of Greek Women of Xanthi 33. Mansion of D. Chasirtzoglou – Lyceum of Greek Women of Xanthi
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