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House of Achilleas Dimitri

One of the most important domestic structures in Fikardou and a representative
example of folk architecture in the region is the “House of Achilleas Dimitri”,
located behind the “House of Katsinioros” at the northern edge of the village.
The main house is two-storied with auxiliary buildings on a higher ground
level surrounding a small courtyard. The nucleus of the house dates back to

the 19th century and is preserved in its original form. The ground floor is
of characteristic Fikardou masonry with a mudbrick superstructure. Con-
struction differs somewhat from that of the other houses by the incorpo-
ration of huge stones within the walls. The house is covered with a wooden

pitched tiled roof forming a verandah along the facade. It is accessible from
the street at the southeast through a doorway opening onto the courtyard.
The upper floor, used for habitation, includes a large room (dichoro), a narrow
long room (makrynari) behind and a spacious room which was added later to the
southwest side of the building. The main rooms open onto the verandah which
is accessible by steps from the courtyard. They also communicate with a flat roof
covering part of the ground floor thereby providing space for specific domes-

tic activities. At the northeast corner of the courtyard next to the doorway is a
separate dichoro and on a higher level at the rear of the courtyard there was once
a ruined stable. The ground floor, communicating with the street at the south-
east side through a wooden door, consists of four adjoining dichora of differ-

ent sizes and a long windowless room at the rear. These rooms served as store-
rooms and stables and are provided with built benches or mangers (pachnes).

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