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Folklore Museum of Panagia

COUNTY: Arcadia MUNICIPALITY: Gortynos

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Folklore

In short

The collection of the folklore museum in Panagia encompasses tools, weapons, swords used in the Greek Revolution of 1821.

The folklore museum of Panagia, established in 1999, is accommodated in a simple stone building, which once was used as the wash-place of the village. On the right there was a ditch with running water and special rooms for the firedog and the cauldron, where the housewives boiled the water to wash with.

The collection provides a representative image of the life in a mountainous Arcadian village from the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century and encompasses a smith’s furnace, a cauldron to make raki (a Greek alcoholic drink), a barber’s workshop, utensils, tools and objects used in traditional farming, weapons and swords, used during the Greek Revolution of 1821, photographs, etc.

Panagia, Arcadia

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