This weekend all attention is focused on the carnival! To get in the mood, Friday evening there is a Carnival Ball in Agia Pelagia. The traditional parade will be on Sunday at midday (12 am), in Potamos. Afterwards, high school children will dance the colourful ‘gaitanaki’ and then the Potamos[…]
Tomorrow and on Sunday, Pyrgos House will be present at the Bike and Hike Travel Show, Jaarbeurs Utrecht. Visit our stand in Hall 4 (4D40) and sample the atmosphere of beautiful Kythira. We will be happy to inform you about our walking programs and our excursions. You will meet other[…]
Every Sunday afternoon this winter, in cooperation with Kythera Hiking, Pyrgos House organises a walk for everyone. The 3-hour walks take place weekly and in a different part of Kythira each time. We arrange to open a church and we invite someone to tell us more about her/his village. Who[…]
In addition to Athens it is also possible to travel to Kythira from Thessaloniki. During the summer months there is a direct flight from Thessaloniki (the next largest city in Greece after Athens) to Kythira. Thessaloniki, the Macedonia province capital, is beautifully situated along the Thermaikos Bay. It is lovely[…]
We proudly present our new accommodation for 2017: Althea in Platia Ammos (peacefully located along the coast, with stunning views over the sea); Archontiko in Potamos (a very spacious mansion, in the middle of town but surrounded by a shady flower garden); House Lilia in Potamos (well designed with antiques[…]
This year, Pyrgos House will be present again at the Bike and Hike Travel Show, Jaarbeurs Utrecht on February 11th and 12th. Visit our stand in Hall 4 (4D40) and sample the atmosphere of beautiful Kythira. We will be happy to inform you about our walking programs and our excursions.[…]
Every year, on December 24th, there is a service in the beautiful cave church of Panagia Spyliotissa, in Mitata. The service starts at 5 pm and afterwards they will sing Christmas Carols in the adjacent caves with live Nativity scene. Click here to see a video made during the 2014-service.[…]
This week, after lunch at Taverna Lemonokipo – the Lemon Grove – in Karavas, we were given a delicious dessert: fruit cooked in syrup (the well known gliko tou koutaliou –spoon sweet). I didn’t recognize though, what kind of fruit it was. It surely was a citrus fruit and it[…]
Last week we received a very special gift, sent by some of our guests: a cookery book with Kythirian recipes. These guests and their friends participated in our ‘Cooking Workshop’. Chrysoula, the cook, shared her garden and her cooking secrets with them. It was great to see how enthusiastic they[…]
Next week, our first guests will arrive for the Olive Picking Walking Weeks which will last until the end of November. This year’s programme, though, will be a bit different. The lack of rain since last winter has meant that even the well-established olive trees have produced too few olives.[…]