Ruins of a 19th century estate

I've commented in the past on how Greece is sort of an Urbexland. A result of vast and deep history combined with far from uneventful politics. Hence not all of my urbex attempts are planned and this is one of them.

In other words, I'm just driving in my car on a rainy day while from the corner of my left eye I catch this:

That put me in "blinkers, rear view mirror check, pull over, handbrake, get out" procedure without second thought. As I cross the road to step closer I make a stop at what looks like a well:

Well, it looks like a well cause it really is:

I'm sure those concrete bricks are a later add on for safety as the looks of the rest of the property scream 19th century. Besides, you can see on the last image above that its top was made of stones.

Moving closer to the ruins I initially spotted I find out that there's also a whole house on the right, probably the main residential of the whole estate (the rest was probably be for the staff and storage purposes). Walking closer and looking further to my right I see more ruins waiting for me:

But let's start from the ones I saw first:

I already like the way this time machine contrasts the blue white sky above:

As you might have noticed at some point the windows and doors of all buildings where sealed with those concrete bricks, probably by the owner(s) of the whole property and obviously post abandoning:

Though these ruins don't come from the fanciest part of the whole estate the stones seem to have been built with some fair amount of care, showing that it was probably among the wealthy properties of the area back in the day:

I'm lucky to enjoy this break from rain which allows me to take pictures of the vegetation around in the absence of harry:

Let's see the previous ruins from the other side:

Old wood catches my attention effortlessly and the remains of that roof is no exception - just consider that these pieces of wood are easily 100 years old if not way more:

Not as much wood left in the rest viewing angles:

And the fact that people tent to trash such places is gross:

Last shots before I move to the main part of this estate:

Time to see the main house from close:

If I commented on the previous findings as "time machine" then this is absolutely one and I already feel like I play in a season movie. Not only this house is more than 100 years old, this olive tree next to it might have been here way before building a house here was in the plans:

The house had much better luck during the test of time compared to the ruins I pictured in part 1 but still it's quite traumatised:

As you can see it was also closed with concrete bricks like all the rest around to prevent uninvited ones from entering:

However, only in this building they also used clay bricks:

Maybe they started with clay and then found the larger concrete ones more convenient (faster to install maybe requiring less grout as well). That little circle window you see close to the roof was a typical architectural bit of the mid/late 19th century in this area.

Let's have a look at the back of the house:

This looks to me like the rear entrance of the house but apart from being sealed there's also a tree defending it:

For the time being my point of entry is this:

I just have to step on those tiles indicating that this probably used to be the kitchen or the bathroom:

That's my first view on the left:

A part of the house has collapsed as you can see:

This is what's left from the roof of the second floor that has collapsed:

And here's what I can see on my right:

Judging by the looks of what's left from the window shutters this house was probably renovated around the 60s.

As you can see it's just a matter of time for the rest of the roof to come down:

Even the ground floor is not walkable:

Everything around gives you the idea that it could fall on your head at anytime and chance given:

I feel lucky I wasn't here when this went down:

This is a much more flattering viewing angle of this house though it's still far from looking perfect:

This tree really beautifies the whole scene:

That tree has an even tougher job beautifying what's behind it but already struggles to survive itself:

This could be the barn of the estate, today it's just a pile of stones:

It also feels to me like it was built with a little less care than the secondary buildings I covered in part 1 but it might just be my idea:

This is the last shot - goodbye to the whole thing as it shits under these cotton white clouds in this olive green hug:

I hope the following 4K video will offer you what you might have missed in the pictures:

Hope you liked it, I surely did!

See you on the next one!