Unfortunately, the house where the great Skiathos writer, the cosmopolitan Alexandros Papadiamantis was born on March 4, 1851, no longer exists. It was sold and its buyers demolished it. But the house where Papadiamantis grew up and died is preserved. It is the new house that his father built in 1860, as we are informed by the inscription on one of his walls.
This house is located about 100 meters from the eastern beach of the city, in a narrow street that is a dead end, a lane of today's Papadiamanti Street.
It is two-legged, with a rise and a descent. His home also has a well in the middle. The hall consists of three rooms and a narrow entrance leading to the three rooms.
To the left as we enter is the winter room with its historic fireplace. Papadiamantis spent his dying moments there.
Above the fireplace were two shelves with the mugs and cups of the house.
In the smaller room to the right, Father Adamatius, Alexander's father, had his books and vestments. Later, Alexander took it and turned it into an office and a bedroom. It was a proper monastery cell with one window and only furniture a built-in cupboard in the wall and his narrow bed. Directly opposite the entrance is the hall of the house with unique luxury a colored rhombus on the ceiling.
The house is generally a simple, simple and spare island house. Today the old entrance of the house which was on the west side is closed. The entrance to the house has been moved to the east side, from where visitors enter and ascend the house-museum by an external wooden staircase.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
