The ancestral home of the great poet Kostis Palamas is located at 10 Triantafyllos Spondis Street, next to the square named after him, where there is also his bust to be seen. In this house he spent his childhood and teenage years after the death of his parents, growing up with his uncle Dimitrios Palamas’ family, and wrote his first poems.
It is a two-storey stone house with an attic, built at the beginning of the 18th century; it combines different structural and stylistic features. It is classified as in need of protection. The house was donated to the municipality by his cousin and has been used as a museum since 1986; it was restored by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture in the past, in the 1960s. Today it is considerably damaged inside and is no longer open to the public.
The building contains the poet’s personal belongings, heirlooms of his family, photographic material, the first editions of his books and many pieces belonging to the furnishings of the family home.
