Traditional art and architecture on Karpathos Island

On the island of Karpathos, of the Dodecanese, a museum, in pragamtikotita is a traditional home, the Museum Vassilis Chatzivasili. The museum is located in a mountainous village called Olympus.
Let us say a few words first about the village.
The village of Olympus, is one of the few villages where people live almost in the traditional way of life as their forefathers. To reach someone in the village, should lead to about an hour from Pigadia (capital of the island) on the road with asphalt and dirt road. The visitor will see a village with a registered trademark of the clouds and permanent place in the mountainside. The past years the link with the rest of the island was by boats, which had many risks because of long distance and the weather. The Karpathos is the second largest island in the Dodecanese after Rhodes and has the deeper seas of the Mediterranean. Women, at least the older, still dresses in the traditional costume of Karpathos and try to maintain this way ntysimatos despite the new customs brought by connecting the village to the island by road. Of course the road has helped to bring more tourists. Certainly the most young have broken the tradition and those who have left the village, bear little difference from the rest of the young season.
Years old then, most men were sailors and fishermen, so the longer missing at sea. Women therefore epomyzontan jobs and home, bringing up children and of course the care of the earth.
At issue now of art and architecture. The Karpathiotes therefore had a special way to build their homes. First and left parents and children slept together. They had built a bed, called wise and which was yperipsomeno and below were closets for storage space. This was also the main house. The toilet was outside the house as a separate room. These two rooms were the main house. But here comes the art. Everything in the house and the ceilings were painted and every home was separate those painted and characteristics of each family. Also in every home had its own separate and chtista bars, which instead of being stained with paint, painted with color as the tables. The same is true for the Madres.
But there were not many to make this art. One of them then started to make such decorative and then for his own pleasure first started to do and tables. And later received orders to them. All of these tools and some drafts of up and integrated projects, and traditional woven will find the Museum Chatzivasili the Olympus of Karpathos. The museum is the same Chatzivasili his home and held by the zeal and love for the son of the place and art that existed there.
In case you are on the island, then it is to visit the museum and see the number of exhibits. You can also click at the website