unique.
It is quite different from the archetypal Cycladic structures and has a strong Ionian influence.
The typical spare lines, coloured doorways and windows, horizontal roofs, narrow streets and lanes and white washed houses, which are quintessential basics of the Cycladic influence, are totally missing in Ithaca.
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Remnants of the pre-Venetian inhabitations are available at Anogi situated north of Ithaca. Archaeologists opine that these pre-Venetian structures had a single room, small windows and they were constructed from fairly big rectangular stone blocks.
The structures also had no balconies. In order to make the houses pirate proof they were planned like a miniature fortress.
The marauding pirates tended to dissipate during the twilight years of the 16th c.The fear was at bay and people relocated near the sea.
Consequently the architectural patterns of the houses they lived in also changed within time. |
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the architecture of the houses of the affluent lot.
They included eves over doors and windows, facades and other decorative niceties.
Outside walls were painted. The colours used were ochre, dark and light brown, red and also white. Currently most of the houses have a basic rectangular layout with roofs of ceramic tiles.
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