Chora

In the Chora of Kythnos, there is a wide range of chimney stacks. This results from the personality of the various masons who built them, each one in their own personal style. The craft was handed down from one generation to the next and produces works of art. The top of the stack is called […]

Kataste(g)i is the covered passage for pedestrians and animals within hamlets.  In Greece, these special passages are also known as diavatika or skepasta. These are constructions (balconies or rooms) above the lanes meandering the hamlet. They were constructed either to span the passage using wooden beams as a bridge or to support a bridge with

There are 6 peristeriones (dove houses) in Chora.  The biggest, which gave its name to the district, is in the heart of Chora, on the douseme (paved surface) lane leading to Tsigoures district. This peristeriona must be at least 100 years old – we do not know the exact year of its construction. Next to

In the Chora of Kythnos, on the south side of the hamlet, alongside the stream, there are four large public wells (the word pigadi [well] is a diminutive of the ancient Greek word pigi [spring]). Pano Pigadi or Pano Piadi, as they say in the local dialect, Cheiropigado, Mesiano, and Fountana. The well is an

Kythnos welcomes Easter dressed in its best garbs, its Lambriatika. On Easter Sunday, in Christos Square of Chora, a swing has already been set up for boys and girls dressed in traditional costumes to swing, a tradition revived by the Cultural Association of Chora. The swinging of the swing, called “mamouni” in the local dialect,