Vaporia: The Sea-Captain Mansion District of Ermoupoli on Syros

Vaporia: The Sea-Captain Mansion District of Ermoupoli on Syros

Vaporia is the neoclassical seafront district of Ermoupoli, the capital of Syros, where nineteenth-century sea captains and shipowners built grand mansions directly above the sea. The name comes from vapori, the Greek word for steamships, whose cargo and passenger lines funded the wealth on show in the painted facades. Three-storey houses rise straight from the … Read more