Architecture

The Municipal Library of Kythera is located just off the central road through Kythera. If you take the Ayios Ilias turn off, it is the first building you see on your right hand side. It is located near the centre of the...

The Library is located just of the central road through Kythera. If you take the Ayios Ilias turn off, it is the first building you see on your right hand side. Kytherian Municipal Library The kythera-family.net, Main Pa...

Kythera Municipal Library, main page Download a .pdf of the landscaping pal here: SXOLEIO KONTOLIANIKA.pdf The courtyard as it exists as of April 2013, is inadequate. The design depicted has been created pro bono by arch...

Kythera Municipal Library, main page Re-design of the Courtyard of the Kythera Municipal Library, Kondelianika One of the "finishing touches" that needs to be completed is the re-design of the external (back) courtyard....

Wonderful doors in the laneways of Hora

We are certain that visitors to Kythera pass them every day - without realising that they are water mills - and why the canals feed into them. Water travelled along a series of canals, througout Mylopotamos - all interli...

Water travelled along a series of canals, througout Mylopotamos - ll interlinked. Water would fall from a height into a designated water mill wheel, turning the wheel, and then the stone, and hence crushing the wheat. Mi...

Water travelled along a series of canals, througout Mylopotamos - ll interlinked. Water would fall from a height into a designated water mill wheel, turning the wheel, and then the stone, and hence crushing the wheat. Mi...

Due to generous contributions from the Australian-Kytherian diaspora - the bell-tower in Logothetianika has been restored. It has not been operational for a number of decades. Now, again, it chimes on the hour. It can be...

Due to generous contributions from the Australian-Kytherian diaspora - the bell-tower in Logothetianika has been restored. It has not been operational for a number of decades. Now, again, it chimes on the hour. It can be...

The Life story of George and Agapi Lianos The Lianos Comino Odyssey My Grandparents were Agapi and George Lianos from Kythera,Greece. Papou was born on the 9th June1873 in the village of Liananika to Emmanuel and Relia,...

Decorative carving above the doorway of a very old house, opposite the church Agios Ioannis in Trifillianika. Is this a family crest? What do the symbols represent?

Simoni Zafiropoulou was born in Athens, and continues to live in Athens. She is the widow of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor, Edwin Kuh. (More about Edwin Kuh, at the end of this brief biography of...

Tsikalaria - Cassimatis (Xeros) Family House. The basement of this house was once used to warehouse Coca Cola, Sprite and Amstel Beer as Theodoros Cassimatis used to be the distributer of these products on the Island. No...

Toilet at the back of the "Xeros" house in Tsikalaria. The photo shows the full length of the walk to the toilet starting from the back door of the house. Imagine having to get up out of bed to go to the toilet in the mi...

Tsikalaria - Houses along the main street of Tsikalaria, including the "Xeros" family house on the left.

George is competent in a number of trades, including, painting, rendering, tiling, contruction of fences & structures, and general handyman work. He also has the ability to organise other tradesmen, to perform their duti...

The house of Rosa. It is the last house on the left as you enter the precinct of the Kastro in Hora. (View looking down from the Kastro. The house in question is the unpainted house, at the top of the stairs, with scaffo...

Rosa was the mother of Lafcadio Hearn. It is the last house on the left as you enter the precinct of the Kastro in Hora. (View looking down from the Kastro. The house in question is the unpainted house, at the top of the...

The place were the weekly washing was done in past years.