Author: thehouse

A celebration of the artichoke. One among the many local products of Tenos island. Every year, women from the village of Komi create traditional recipes based on the artichokes that are harvested on the valley of Komi a few hundred meters away!
“Panigyria” or open-air festivals

Every summer, Tinos island transforms into a vibrant mosaic of celebration through its cherished panigyria (traditional open-air festivals)...

28 July, 2026
Loutra rental house in Tinos in La Repibblica newspaper
What do silkworms have to do with houses in Tenos?

The rearing of silkworms, also known as sericulture, was well-developed in Tenos. Silkworms were raised in bamboo baskets suspended from the ceiling of the house. This is one reason why the houses, specifically the upper floor where people lived, had high ceilings...

27 May, 2026
Alekos Florakis' look into the soul of Tinos
Alekos Florakis’ look into the soul of Tinos

Alekos Florakis is widely known not only as a poet and literary author, but also—perhaps more fundamentally—as an ethnologist whose work is inseparable from the lived reality of Tinos. His writing approaches the island less as an object of aesthetic admiration and more as a...

05 January, 2026
Kala krasia, good wine in Tenos!
Kala krasia, good wine in Tenos!

A small and radical wine cabinet and importer on a tiny island, full of bottled beauties Greek and French, Italian and Catalan, this "caviste" will keep its doors open after the end of the summer season...

31 July, 2025
Loutra rental house at La Repubblica newspaper
Loutra house at La Repubblica

Being a hundred years old on Tinos Thick walls, spartan furnishings, few objects. A stone house in the village of Loutra, where days are marked by the energy of the island In Loutra, girls from neighbouring villages used to come to the Ursuline convent to learn to...

21 May, 2025
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