Metaxades, Evros
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Metaxades (Greek: Μεταξάδες, [metaˈksaðes]) is a large village and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Didymoteicho, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 211.238 km2. In 2011 its population was 687 for the village, 717 for the community and 3,415 for the municipality.
It's a settlement where the popular form of the most characteristic industrial buildings of Thrace was created. These buildings are the koukoulospita (cocoon houses) made for housing families and hosting sericulture as a homemade activity. These residencies did not have any particularities but inside them housing was restricted and the traditional chagiati (roofed balcony) was a big hall with wooden piers. The traditional architecture of Metaxades is based on a particular way of building with carefully made wooden frameworks filled with big well assorted pieces of soft limestone -a characteristic that was preserved until the third decade of the 20th century-, with morphological unity and solid limestone constructions added to the traditional ones of the beginnings of the 20th century.
It's a settlement where the popular form of the most characteristic industrial buildings of Thrace was created. These buildings are the koukoulospita (cocoon houses) made for housing families and hosting sericulture as a homemade activity. These residencies did not have any particularities but inside them housing was restricted and the traditional chagiati (roofed balcony) was a big hall with wooden piers. The traditional architecture of Metaxades is based on a particular way of building with carefully made wooden frameworks filled with big well assorted pieces of soft limestone -a characteristic that was preserved until the third decade of the 20th century-, with morphological unity and solid limestone constructions added to the traditional ones of the beginnings of the 20th century.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaxades
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Coordinates: 41°25'11"N 26°13'33"E
- 4x Ammunation depot 18 km
- Stoiloudis Ioannis ABEE NORMA S.A. 23 km
- TSANTIRIA 24 km
- unknown 26 km
- Bus station 27 km
- TSIOKOS AE 27 km
- Pythion/Petrades Antennas park 32 km
- nice 42 km
- Το παλιό σχολείο της Λευκίμης (1950) 44 km
- Karapinar Village Graveyard 48 km
- Cemetery 0.5 km
- Remvi 0.7 km
- Cemetery 1.9 km
- Reservoir lake 3.2 km
- Reservoir lake 4.4 km
- Didymoteicho Municipality 14 km
- Orestiada Municipality 21 km
- Ivaylovgrad Municipality 22 km
- Soufli Municipality 27 km
- Haskovo Province 47 km