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Kouriton
House is located in Janakiana, in municipality Geropotamos that
is 25klm away from Rethymno. It is a traditional stone built rural
mansion, in the house there is a traditional oven house, hay- loft,
a store house for old jars, wine –press. The house was built
in 1750 according to the post Byzantine Cretan house that has its
roots in the prehistoric type of the Minoan Palace. The main entrance
leads one into the oven house and the ground floor, where we can
find very old jars that used to keep the fruits, the wine and the
olive oil. At the house it is en suited the single room that it
was used as a stable for the animals. Also there is the sitting
room and many bedrooms with fireplaces in order to keep the place
warm .The interior ladder and the external stone built stairs lead
onto the upstairs area.
One can describe
the house plain but there are details that make it magnificent,
like the windows and the doors in the row, the clayey chimneys
and the flagstone paths. In the yard there are the old Cretan
benches under the vine-arbour , the apricot tree and the olive
trees.
The house is completely
renovated with the important help of the experienced architect
Mr. Iliakis, who tried to show the components of the local traditional
architecture and to utilize the space with the oven house and
the objects trying to introduce to the public the authentic history.
After the fascinating procedure for the renovation of the house,
that lasted one year, one can define it as an historical monument
that symbolizes the folklore and the Cretan civilization and now
it is destined for a traditional tourist accommodation, that it
is about to operate this year for the first time. As a particular
interesting sample of the rural residence it is necessary to be
observed in order to understand the development of the architecture
in this region for this reason it was decided by the central council
of contemporary monuments to be qualified as a historical maintained
building.
In a very
close distance from the house is the village of Perama only 7
klm away, where one can find health center, banks, store departments.
The village of Panormo where there is the picturesque little port
and the beaches with the fish taverns is 10 klm away from the
house. The ancient Eleftherna is 7 klm away, the Holly Monastery
Arkadi is 9 klm away, and the historical cave of Melidone is 9
klm away. Also very close is the cave Sfendoni, the traditional
villages Zoniana, Anogia, Axos and the famous Ideon Andron.
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