BARSINIKO PHOTOS

...and scenes from Mystras and Sparta....

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Sign marking Barsiniko, now named Taygete



Approaching Barsiniko, photo 2006

Welcome to Taygete (Barsiniko) 2006

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View from the Xepapas house 1981



The view from the Xepapas house 2006

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View from the Xepapas house 1981

Panayiotis Stroumboulis, born Mystras, Greece
Photo taken ca 1920



Christos Stroumboulis, seated left, and his son, Panayiotis Stroumboulis,
standing right, Mystra, Greece
Photo ca 1920

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Panayiotis Stroumboulis ca 1920

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Interior of monastery Zoodoxos Pigi, 2006

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Interior of monastery Zoodoxos Pigi 2, 2006

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Exterior of monastery Zoodoxos Pigi, 2006

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Exterior of monastery Zoodoxos Pigi 2, 2006

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Exterior of monastery Zoodoxos Pigi 3, 2006

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Village scene 2006

The Xepapas/Pavlis house in Barsiniko ca 1933

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View of the Xepapa house (3) 2006

 

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View of the Xepapa house 2006

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The fountain in Barsiniko 2006

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Detail of the fountain 2006

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Agio Giorgios (St. George) The church in Barsiniko 2006
My Popou baptized here in 1888

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Ag. Giorgios (St. George)
The church in Barsiniko 1981

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Ag. Giorgios (St. George) The church in Barsiniko 2, 2006

 

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Plaque on the church in Barsiniko placed
by the Karounos family, photo 2006

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Village scene 3, 2006

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View of the Xepapa house 2, 2006

Eleni Pavlis Xepapas in Barsiniko ca 1933

 

Barbara Stroumboulis and Dimitrios Xepapas wedding photo, Quincy, MA 1915

 

 

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Eleni Pavlis Xepapa, Christos Stroumboulis, Eleni Tzanetea Stroumboulis, in Mystra, October 1925

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Nikos Kakaletris, Eleni Stadopoulou Kakaletris, Panayiotis Kakaletris, Jim Pappas in Barsiniko September 1981

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Jim Pappas, Panayiotis Kakaletris, Nikos Kakaletris in Barsiniko 1981

The Demarchaion or town hall in the main square in Sparta, ca 1934

 

Theodoros Karounos has posted a few photos of the village of Barsiniko.  Click here to view them.

For an aerial photo of the village, click here.