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In 1895 Aikaterini Cambouropoulos
built for her daughter, Marika a villa in Alinda
on the island of Leros. The house was built using plans drawn by an
Austrian architect and was set in a rose garden amidst vineyards. A few years
later, Marika wed Stavros Angelou, with whom she had six children from 1901 to
1921. The
present proprietor is the daughter of the youngest child, Lolos.
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The house during construction (c. 1895) |
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Initial form - fragment (c. 1900) |
During the first decades of the century, the Angelou family
who lived in Egypt and vacationed on Leros, used this house as their summer
residence. |
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Sometime around 1930, the house was "upgraded" with the
addition of a tower-like structure in the front and balconies, and with a
modification of the main staircase - as the fashion of the times dictated. |
During construction of additions (c. 1930) |
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Aikaterini Cambouropoulos |
Before settling in this house, Lolos, who was afraid of his
stern grandmother (because she scolded him continuously for his bad manners and
long fingernails), went on to fight in North Africa during WWII, was in
the first group of Greeks to come to Leros after its liberation, and spent
18 years in Tanganyika, in Africa. |
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In the mid 1970's Lolos, who was already running a small hotel in his other
house in Lakki, decided it to convert the summer house in Alinda into a hotel. |
Postcard of Alinda (c. 1949) sent by Marika
Cambouropoulos to her brother Petros |
