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Settlement
Museum: 7.500 year ago a group of people chose the south bank
of the lake to build with wood and clay a village in or very close
to the lake. This Neolithic community confronts it for hundreds
of years the challenges of the ecosystem of the region by developing
a broad spectrum of activities and a special civilization. The excavation
research that the group of Mr. G. Oh. Chourmouziades, professor
of AUTH, started in 1992 brought to light lots of significant findings.
Though the study of these findings there was an effort of reconstructing
the image of the prehistoric lake settlement and creating the first
Greek Settlement Museum. The Settlement Museum of Dispilio goes
beyond the limits of a conventional archaeological exhibition and
transforms the archaeological information to a place where one can
experience it. In area of 20.000 square meters that represents the
ecosystem of the lake settlement, the visitor has the possibility
to walk on the wooden platforms of the village, to see the households
of the 6th millennium BC and to see closer the life of the Neolithic
inhabitants. The representation is surrounded by reception and recreation
areas and reflects a modern concept of museums on the level of using
the archaeological information.
Mansions
The mansions are building of the 17th and 18th century and they
present great interest for their wall-building, their architecture
and their painting, while they stand out for the imposing presence
and the grandeur of their unusual construction. The mansions were
built in the era where Kastoria presented a great economic growth
as a result of a great commercial and manufacturing activity of
the fur-makers of Kastoria in Greece and abroad.The mansions, witnesses
of the economic prosperity and the cultural growth, are characterized
by safety and comfort and they constitute, today, unique pieces
of the traditional architecture of the modern years. Most of the
mansions have been renovated in the last years. The most characteristic
of them stand proudly till nowdays in Doltso square.
Churches
The
great development of church architecture in the region of Kastoria
in the mid-Byzantine period resulted to the parallel flourishing
of hagiography.
Today in the department of Kastoria there are 80 temples preserved,
from which 26 are Byzantine and possess about 3.000 square meters
of frescoes while all the churches possess rare samples of Byzantine
icons and woodcut temples of inestimable artistic value.
The main feature of the icons saved is that the imaging of one or
more persons is given in a conventional space without any naturalism
and geometric perspective while the emphasis is given to the transcendent
and the supernatural of the persons.
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