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Kastro
The name of the place means fortress. In its current
state the settlement constitutes sample of castle
of Enetic period. Is built on ancient citadel, the
Asty that reports the Herodotus. It is lived since
the ancient years and it is an open museum. The
first line from the possessed two-stored or three-stored
houses constitutes the exterior medieval wall. Here
lived the popular class, while in the internal line
that is found in the taller part of castle resided
the aristocratic class, in order to be safer from
the piratical raids and pillages. The visitor enters
and today in Kastro from the old entries - galleries
called Lotzies, which previously was secured and
protected from martial towers. Due to the closeness
of space in the buildings is observed the horizontal
property. Moreover streets and squares in Kastro
are above the roofs of single-floored houses that
are used today as deposits, while the old chimneys
of residences on a level with the ground for the
export of tobacco from the fireplace were manufactured
in the vertical wall that delimited the street.
Kastro was capital of Sifnos during the ancient,
the medieval and newer period until 1836, as well
as seat of Archdiocese of Sifnos (1646-1797) and
Bishopric of Sifnos and Milos (1797-1852). |
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The metropolitan residence was in the top
of citadel, current Despotika. At this place
was previously located the metropolitan temple
of Catholics too, today Frankantonis (1460).
In the entry of the village, where today the
cemetery of Kastro and the temples of Saint
Stefanos and Saint Ioannis (1629) is found,
functioned the eminent Faculty of Agiou Tafou
(1687-1835), known as Paideftirion of Archipelago.
The visitor deserves to make a walk in the
roundabout footpath, to admire the graphic
small church of Eftamartiros, and to visit
the Archaeological Museum too. In the southern
rice of hill of Kastro is found the Seralia,
the ancient harbour of Sifnos, the name of
which means palace, perhaps from the noble
buildings that existed in the years of Ottoman
domination in the valley of seashore. |
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MYRTO BUNGALOWS HOTEL IN SIFNOS ISLAND GREECE -
84003 Artemonas -
SIFNOS - GREECE
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