Listed 16 sub titles with search on: Culture & Art Centres for wider area of: "STEREA HELLAS Region GREECE" .
DELPHI (Small town) PARNASSOS
Tel: +30 22650 82731-2
Fax: +30 22650 82733
MAVROMMATI (Small town) THESPIES
PSACHNA (Small town) CHALKIDA
Tel: +30 22280 25140
Fax: +30 22280 25147
VIOTIA (Prefecture) GREECE
In the following WebPages you can find an interactive map with all the monuments and museums of the Prefecture, with relevant information and photos.
AGIA TRIADA (Village) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 96373
In the museum are traditional costumes, old objects and tools. There is a library of great interest that operates in the house of Chrysostomos Karapiperi with 8,000 books. It is 35klm from Karpenissi
This extract is cited August 2003 from the Municipality of Karpenission URL below.
DOMNISTA (Village) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 92265
It offers many old objects and archival photographic material. It is 41klm from Karpenissi.
GALAXIDI (Small town) PARNASSOS
Tel: +30 22650 41558
The building
that now houses the archaeological collection of Galaxidi was constructed in the 1830's and until 1870 it functioned as
a carpet industry where the sailors' wives were occupied. Later it housed the Municipality of Galaxidi and in 1932, the
Maritime Gallery of the town. In 1979 the finds from the area of Galaxidi were transferred from the
Museum of Delphi to the
Maritime and Historical Museum of Galaxidi and
were exhibited in one of its halls.
The archaeological collection includes finds from Galaxidi and the adjacent areas as well as
items raised from the sea.
Some of the most important exhibits are:
- Early Helladic hydria (water jar) found in the area of a shipwreck,
in the sea off Galaxidi.
- Red-figure pelike. It bears painted representations on both sides:
a man and a youth are depicted on one side,
a woman and a youth on the other. The work is attributed to the Syrakousae painter.
- Bronze folded mirror bearing the relief representation
of a woman's head.
GRANITSA (Village) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 61040, 61035
Since 1970 the museum has been in operation in the village, with folk art objects and the Papantoniou and Granitsa library. It is 83klm from Karpenissi.
IERA MONI PROUSSOU (Monastery) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 80705, 80725-6
There is an interesting museum in the monastery with many historical and religious exhibits, such as books from the 15th and 16th centuries, manuscript codices, typed books, a sword from 1821 that may have belonged to Karaiskaki, as well as many vestments. It is 33klm from Karpenissi.
This extract is cited August 2003 from the Municipality of Karpenission URL below.
KORYSCHADES (Village) KARPENISSI
Tel: +30 22370 22309, 25102
In May of 1944, at the village school, the National Council, formed from the First Free Elections, met. Since then, the school building has been declared a landmark monument and an exhibition of the photographs of the National Resistance photographer Spyros Meletzis is housed there. It is 6klm from Karpenissi.
This extract is cited August 2003 from the Municipality of Karpenission URL below.
MEGALO CHORIO (Village) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 41502, 41245
The museum plays host to traditional costumes, household items, artistic creations. It is 14klm from Karpenissi.
This extract is cited August 2003 from the Municipality of Karpenission URL below.
MIKRO CHORIO (Village) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 41221
Offers rare photographic material of the village's landslide in 1963, photo material and exhibits about the resistance, part of a print shop that used to be there, traditional costumes, as well as ancient exhibits, ceramics, a library etc. It is 16klm from Karpenissi
This extract is cited August 2003 from the Municipality of Karpenission URL below.
MONI TATARNAS (Monastery) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 95400
It offers a library with 633 texts. There are also some notable texts that have survived from 1544-1578 published in Vienna, Venice and other European cities s well as the mosaic icon "The King of Glory" which dates from 1350. It is 70klm from Karpenissi.
This extract is cited August 2003 from the Municipality of Karpenission URL below.
VINIANI (Village) EVRYTANIA
Tel: +30 22370 31240
On March 10, 1944, in the school building of the village of Palia Viniani the "Government of the Mountain", the first government of Free Greece was convened. Since that time it has been declared a museum monument where a large amount of photographic material as well as texts from the period referring to the struggles and the capitol of Free Greece, Viniani are housed. It is 38klm from Karpenissi.
This extract is cited August 2003 from the Municipality of Karpenission URL below.
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