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ANDROS (Small town) KYKLADES
It was built in 1207 and all the building work lasted for 26 years. You can see it just at the end of the peninsula of Hora - Andros town opposite the square of "the Unknown sailor".The little island on which the imposing Venetian castle is built , is connected by Hora with a little stony arch.
The castle used to be a fort to protect Hora in the past. However , its greater part was destroyed during the second world war.
KOCHYLOS (Village) ANDROS
Pano Kastro (Upper Castle) or Faneromeni Castle or The Old Lady's Castle was the strongest and largest city in Andros island during the middle-ages. It was built by Venetians on top a spectacular plateau north of Ormos, at a height of 600m. It could protect around 1000 (or more) people and it was considered to be impregnable, thanks to the high rocks and the strong wall surrounding it. Its history is unknown and this is the probable reason for the myths associated with it. According to the most known, the Ottomans, who could not conquer it, send there an old lady with her pregnant daughter to ask for help. Instead, the same night the old lady opened the gate and the Ottomans who finally went inside, slaughtered all the people. Later, the old lady, having regretted for what she did, climbed on a high peak and committed suicide, jumping towards the sea. So, her memory remained imprinted in two sights of the area: "the Old Lady's Castle" and "the Old Lady's Jump" (Grias Pidima), a nice beach nearby. Nowadays it is accessible through a path starting from Kochylou village and somebody can see ruins of houses, churches, cisterns and Faneromeni church. Above all, there is the magnificent view of the Aegean Sea and an impressive landscape.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Municipality of Korthi URL below, which contains image.
SYNETI (Village) ANDROS
Dipotamata is a river-basin of extreme natural beauty, with a length
of about 7 kilometers, in the south-east side of the island, between Syneti, Paleokastro
and Kochylou.
Water these days is less, but even in drought times it doesn't stop. The natural
environment is unspoiled, since the traffic has stopped since the last 35 years.
As a consequence the vegetation is very thick (oleanders, mulberry-trees, fig-trees,
oak-trees, bushes, reeds, rushes, blackberries, mint, osiers, ivies). The whole
area is a shelter for a variety of animals, such as weasels, badgers, hares, snakes
and birds (partridges mainly).
The gorge is crossed by a wide slated cobbled road (the only road
connecting Korthi
with Chora till 1950).
In the intersecting point with the river, there is an arch-shaped bridge and occasionally
small fountains. There are also other narrow step-like paths connecting the other
villages of the area with the fields and the water mills. In good condition there
are also (apart from the paths, the stone-walls, the water-mills and their auxiliary
constructions) sheep-cotes, stables, lodgings, barns, threshing floors and country
churches. But the most important structures of the area are the water-mills.
The reason that in Dipotamata was built a large number of water-mills,
was the particularly favourable conditions for establishing and operating them:
plenty of running water, good access through the paths, protected environment,
small distance from villages, etc. Today can be seen (in good condition, in ruins
or in traces) 22 water-mills in all the gorge. Most of them are in very good shape.
In a few of them there are neighbouring or adjacent auxiliary buildings, such
as a room for the miller to spend the night, sheep-cote, stable or store room.
Hydraulic works of big importance and extent for the time and its technological
level were supplying and often netting the water-mills. In narrow places of the
gorge there were dams, which were forming lakes, to collect water for watering
purposes and the functioning of the water-mills. From there, canals were guiding
the water in the millpond and eventually into the hole of the machinery of the
mill. The remaining water and water coming out of the mill (having rotated its
wheel) was guided to the canal of the next water-mill.
This text is cited March 2005 from the Municipality of Korthi URL below, which contains images.
KORTHI (Municipality) ANDROS
Like in all the other Cycladic islands, also in Andros the wind power
is used, nowadays by the use of wind generators and formerly by the use of an
extensive network of wind-mills.
In Korthi
area (and in Serifos
island) was developed a special type of wind-mill, tavlomylos, with the wheel
rotating horizontally, having a vertical axis. In the Municipality area exist
such wind-mills and of the classical type too, which were in operation till the
middle of last century, producing flower.
Contrary to the other islands, Andros has plenty of water. As a consequence,
it was natural to use water power too. So it was formed an even greater network
of water-mills, since the use of water as a driving force has, compared to wind,
the advantage of stability, durability and better control, regardless of weather
conditions.
In Korthi area you can find more than 40 wind-mills, excellent samples
of pre-industrial technology. Most of them are in Dipotamata, but there are also
in Aidonia, Vouni
and Piso Meria.
This text is cited March 2005 from the Municipality of Korthi URL below, which contains image.
These unique buildings, fine samples of folklore architecture, are
found in a big number all around Municipality area.
These structures are used as pigeon houses, barns and even houses.
Walking through the old stone-paths you will come across many pigeon
houses, some of them elaborate, others plain-built, small and big. Most of them
are well maintained and white-washed, serene points of reference on a landscape,
sometimes peacefull too and othertimes rough and abrupt.
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