The Greek Community of Darwin, Australia
The webpage author, Kon Vatskalis was elected to the Territory Parliament
on 18 August 2001and his now the Minister for Infrastructure, Planning,
Transport, Parks and Wildlife and Ethnic Affairs.
PYRSOGIANNI
The village of the stone craftsmen
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There is an old saying in the region of Epirus in Greece: "God first created the village of Pyrsogianni, and the men of Pyrsogianni built the world! " Perched high up in a remote area in one of the many branches of the Pindos mountain a group of villages are famous for their menfolk who were gifted stonemasons. They are called MASTOROHORIA (Mastoras = craftsman, Horia= villages) and the most famous of these is the village of Pyrsogianni (Pir-soo-yianne), one of many montainous villages in Epirus, has survived unchanged for hundreds of years. In its hayday Pyrsogianni numbered more than a thousand inhabitands living a traditional but harsh lifestyle. But the remote village
of Pyrsogianni was famous throughout the centuries for its gifted stonemasons.
They were men who could make the stone to "sing". The could take a rough
stone
I welcome you to this page that provides information for Pyrsogianni, the most famous of the "mastorohoria" , in Greece and in the Balkans.
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