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Out of love for art and for the city of Kastoria, Pistikos began to display his work to the public in 1991, at 89 Megalou Alexandrou Street. The museum includes models of old town houses, Byzantine churches, the monasteries of the surrounding area, the lakeside settlement at Dispilio , a model of the entire city and copies of the vitraux, the ...
The museum stands at the highest point of the city, in Dexamenis Square (Platia Dexamenis), next to the Monuments Museum.It has been open since 1989. It has a collection of some 700 icons from the city's 75 Byzantine and post-Byzantine churches, and almost all of them have been restored and cleaned by the museum's conservators.
Dispilio (Greek: Δισπηλιό, before 1926: Δουπιάκοι – Doupiakoi) [2] is a village near Lake Orestiada, in the Kastoria regional unit of Western Macedonia, Greece. [3] Near the village is an archaeological site containing remains of a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island.
The Greek merchants Georgios Kyritses and Manolakis Kastorianos financed Greek education in Kastoria. [33] Greek schools were established in Kastoria, with the oldest in the town and Macedonia being founded in 1614; a second was founded in 1705, and a third in 1715, funded by Kyritses. [33]
On the first floor are the everyday room and the summer bedroom and on the second floor the main sitting room and the winter bedroom. They display a rich collection of women's and men's clothing (mainly formal local costumes), underwear, needlework and embroidery, handwoven textiles, and a rich collection of family photographs and women's portraits from Kastorian communities abroad.
Pentavryso (Greek: Πεντάβρυσο, before 1928: Ζελιγκόσδη – Zeligkosdi) [2] [3] is a village in Kastoria Municipality, in Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. [4] The village centre is on an altitude of 790 m. Pentavryso is sprawling from the northern slopes of a range of green and sandy hills of the Tsemna range (900 m).
Nostimo (Greek: Νόστιμο, before 1927: Νιστήμιον – Nistimion, [2] between 1927 and 1928: Κουφοξυλιά – Koufoxylia) [3] is a village and a community in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. The Paleontological and Paleobotanical Museum is located in Nostimo.
The Folklore Museum of Kastoria (Greek: Λαογραφικό Μουσείο Καστοριάς) also known as Folklore Museum “Nerantzis-Aivazis” (Λαογραφικό Μουσείο “Νεράντζη–Αϊβάζη”), located in Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece, is housed in one of the city's oldest mansions, the Nerantzis-Aivazis residence near the lake, at 10 Kapetan Lazou Street.