Metaxades
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Metaxades (Greek: Μεταξάδες, [metaˈksaðes]) is a large village and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. This lowland settlement, positioned at an altitude of 120 meters, is celebrated as the most picturesque in the wider area, thanks to its traditional stone architecture.
Metaxades
Μεταξάδες | |
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Coordinates: 41°25′12″N 26°13′31″E | |
Country | Greece |
Administrative region | East Macedonia and Thrace |
Regional unit | Evros |
Municipality | Didymoteicho |
Area | |
• Municipal unit | 211.2 km2 (81.5 sq mi) |
Elevation | 116 m (381 ft) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Municipal unit | 2,387 |
• Municipal unit density | 11/km2 (29/sq mi) |
• Community | 511 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal code | 68010 |
Vehicle registration | EB |
It's a settlement where the popular form of the most characteristic industrial buildings of Thrace was created. These buildings are the koukoulospita (cocoon houses) made for housing families and hosting sericulture as a homemade activity. These residencies did not have any particularities but inside them housing was restricted and the traditional chagiati (roofed balcony) was a big hall with wooden piers. The traditional architecture of Metaxades is based on a particular way of building with carefully made wooden frameworks filled with big well assorted pieces of soft limestone -a characteristic that was preserved until the third decade of the 20th century-, with morphological unity and solid limestone constructions added to the traditional ones of the beginnings of the 20th century.[2]