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Apart from the big mansions of the "Roman Bay" in Myrina, almost in each village certain impressive buildings distinguish, built in vital places of the settlements. They are the residences of rich Limnians, that having emigrating in the dues of 19th century, mainly in Egypt but also in America, turned in their place, building big mansions that signalled in each village the economic prosperity of "Egyptians" as they were called. Contrary to the typical Limnian home, they do not have exterior scales but, monumental character entries, with stone advocates and well written stone balconies with forousia as well as other elements of decorative stone sculpture mainly in the facades or in metopes. Apart from the region of Myrina, splendid and numerous samples of this type of architecture are especially seen in Korno, Romano, Kondia, Portiano and at Moudros and separately in almost every village of the island.
This text is cited March 2004 from the Municipality of Moudros URL below, which contains image.
The donations of the migrated Limnians and the collections of the poor residents in the dues of 19th century, created the marvellous school buildings that the visitor meets in each village of the island. From the older small school of Skandali up to the outstanding building of High school in the Myrina, testify the care and the generosity for the children's education in the island, that removed as it was in the middle of Aegean was not found in the centre of the government concern. Today many of the schools of the smaller villages are closed as the number of students has decreased. Marvellous school buildings with attended big courtyards and stone structured facades does someone meet in all the villages of the island.
This text is cited March 2004 from the Municipality of Moudros URL below, which contains image.
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