Ancient sites · Petra (north Lesbos)
Vareltzidaina Mansion
Photo: Chris Kar · CC BY-SA 4.0
A late 18th or early 19th century merchant's house in Petra, used as both a residence and a wine-trading base by the Bardakcoglu family and one of the best surviving examples of secular architecture from late Ottoman Lesbos. The fortress-like stone ground floor was for storage, while the lighter timber-framed upper floor has rooms around a central sofa with carved woodwork, ceiling rosettes and painted landscape murals; it was fully restored in 1999-2000 and is administered by the Ministry of Culture.
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