To Mila: Green Greece!

[LEAFS FANATIC]

Hope you enjoy the "greener" sides of Greece my friend!!!


Samos:




Metsovo:








Crete:






Corfu (Kerkyra):














Paxos:








Skiathos:






Skopelos:










Chalkidiki:








Edessa:






Kefallonia:








Parga:






Siatista:








Nafplio:






Kastoria:

[Sarajka]

Wow! Thank you so much, I'm honored you took the time to put this together for me.


^ Metsovo isn't like Bosnia, it is Bosnia. That's so weird! The buildings here have some features I considered distinctly Bosnian, rather than simply Ottoman. (Like the stone base with white upper floors). It's strange to see the roofs with so much green! I assume we have the same plants in Bosnia, and in Travnik city they also climb most of the central buildings; but not quite that much!

I mean, it's almost identical to the old East end of Sarajevo:



Kastoria reminds me a lot of Albania - only the buildings are white instead of 10,000 different varieties of neon. But the plan of this city, with the main roads running parallel to the water, seems to me to be the exact opposite of traditional Greek layouts. Most of the photos I've noticed of Greek coastal cities, the main roads head from the centre to the ocean, not along the coast?


This one is my favorite. The quality of the residences is so nice, like in certain areas of Sarajevo, and Kresevo. This place must've been fairly prosperous in Ottoman times? Or are these buildings new and the local Greeks just stuck to Ottomanish architecture?

Keffalonia looks just like Neum, in Bosnia, to me:



Anyhow, looks great! I love this side of Greece. I could move to Metsovo tomorrow!

[GrigorisSokratis]

Sarajka actually Kastoria is located by a lake and it's far away from the closest beach (some 200kms).

The layout of Greek towns differs by areas, Greece is a rcountry with varieties. It's not the same the architecture of the Cyclades (Mykonos, Santorini, etc) which is the typical image of the white houses hanging from a cliffed town, from that of Rhodes, or Crete or the Ionian islands, or from Thrace, or from Epirus. It's a really big geographical area of 310,000 sq. kms so it's is common to find so many architectural styles, according to the geography of the area on issue.

As for Albania don't forget that we are talking about constructions of hundreeds of years, and all of southern Albania was once part of Greece. Cities like Argyrokastro, Korytsa, Delvino, Tepeleni, Moschopolis or seaside towns like the Agioi Saranta or Xeimarra are all greek in origin part of the Northern Epirus and most of those houses have been constructed by greeks, having thus a resemblance with their counterpartners of Southern Epirus.

Finally due to the mountainous geography of the Balkans you are going to find a more or less similar architecture in many regions of it.

[Christos7]

Great topic! I was actually preparing something pretty similar but you beat me to it Leafs.

I am in the process of collecting photos to show the different sides Greece have to offer, from all over like Thraki, Makedonia, Epirus, Peloponnesos etc....


Here is a little taste, the small city of Xanthi in Thraki (Thrace) region, which has a small Mulsim minority in it (Sarajka will probably love these ):

[Zorba]

Xanthi is such an amazing city.

[Sarajka]

Originally Posted by Christos7

Here is a little taste, the small city of Xanthi in Thraki (Thrace) region, which has a small Mulsim minority in it (Sarajka will probably love these )

And you're right. I love cities with a Muslim population, it's just so interesting to me. Like how you might feel if you found a town in some far-off country that had an Orthodox Church, you know? You notice so many things in common, and then you wonder what are the differences, and it makes you curious.

Like in this town I notice the street layout and dense residential districts resemble the mahala style of Bosnia. The mosque has a similar shape but it's not as tall as Bosnian mosques. The minaret is idential, but the top is shiny and grey, looks metallic - again, very different from Bosnia. I guess it just gives me a footing that I know more about this place than I would another Greek town, so because I have a bigger foundation, I can look at more things and longer and know, for certain, some of the reasons behind them, etc.

Still doesn't beat the others from Leaf's post though.