Mansions of Old Xanthi through the history of their owners
This route is about 1.7 km, about 60 minutes and of moderate difficulty. The visitor will stroll through the rich mansions of old Xanthi, built mostly according to the rules of neoclassicism and eclecticism and less according to traditional architecture. These mansions stand out for their architectural style, their intense decorative mood, their inspiration and their majesty in the urban landscape.

The visitor with this route will have the opportunity to learn, through the buildings, the history of their owners and the role they had in the economic, social and political life of the city. The wealthy families of tobacco merchants (e.g. Kougioumtzoglou, Stalios, Ladas, Sigalas, Karadimoglou, Daniel, Christidis, Moses, Valixoglou), other wealthy families who were commercially active in ironmongery (small metal objects) and glassware (e.g. Metaxas), or in textiles (e.g. Chasirtzoglou), or practiced the professions of notary-insurer (e.g. Blatsios) and doctor (e.g. Karabetsis).

30. Two-storey traditional mansion

Brief documentation:

It is a building of traditional architecture, built in the late 19th-early 20th century. It is a large mansion, a two-storey building of large dimensions with a mezzanine. The building has a "Π" shape and two symmetrical wings. It has a decorative triangular pediment on the roof of the façade and a symmetrical interior layout.
The building is a typical construction built based on the traditional, folk architecture, with a stone ground floor made of thick stone walls (with stones without prior processing) in which wooden beams were inserted, horizontally and intermittently, for their reinforcement, for the distribution of loads and for reasons of earthquake protection. The corners of the walls have square stones (cornerstones) and the floors are made of thinner and lighter walls made of tsatma (with a wooden frame where diagonal wooden elements were placed, while the gap between them was filled
with small stones, ceramic elements, braided branches, etc.). A characteristic feature of the building is the many windows on the upper floor, which were intended for use mainly during the summer months, as well as the pedimented end of the roof above the main entrance, which has painted decoration. The building has recently been successfully renovated.


Category of thematic interest:  ARCHITECTURAL / HISTORICAL INTEREST


History:

It is a large mansion of traditional architecture, built in the late 19th-early 20th century.


Elements of architecture:

t is a large mansion of traditional architecture, a two-storey building of large dimensions with mezzanine. The building has a "P" shape and two symmetrical wings. It has a decorative triangular pediment on the roof of the façade and a symmetrical interior layout. The building is a typical construction built based on the traditional, folk architecture, with a stone ground floor made of thick stone walls (with stones without prior processing) in which wooden beams were inserted, horizontally and intermittently, for their reinforcement, for the distribution of loads and for reasons of earthquake protection. The corners of the walls have square stones (cornerstones) and the floors are made of thinner and lighter walls made of tsatma (with a wooden frame where diagonal wooden elements were placed, while the gap between them was filled with small stones, ceramic elements, braided branches, etc.). A characteristic feature of the building is the many windows on the upper floor, which were intended for use mainly during the summer months, as well as the pedimented end of the roof above the main entrance, which has painted decoration.


Description of other elements:

The building has recently been successfully renovated.


Purpose - Use: Residence


Characterization: ΔPreservable, Institution of the Ministry of Culture, Decision DILAP/C/13633/180, Government Gazette 128/83


Dating (period): Late 19th-early 20th century


Year of construction: Late 19th-early 20th century


Location of the monument: 41.14235, 24.8864


Bibliographic references:

•    D. Mavridis (ed.). Xanthi, the city with a thousand colors. Xanthi, PAKETHRA 2008, p. 185


 Address: Taxiarchon 3


Visitable: No

 

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