Molyvos Manor is a three bedroom home with a spacious living-room, large kitchen and dining room and two full bathrooms (one on each floor). Two of the bedrooms are located on the upper floor and are accessible through an internal staircase. These rooms enjoy 12 foot + ceilings, while the third, ground-floor bedroom, is self-contained with its own hall doors keeping it and its bathroom separate from the living-room and kitchen areas. Most alluring of Molyvos Manor’s features is its veranda with views on wonderful Molyvos views to Molyvos bay and the large swimming pool patio overlooking the harbour and the Aegean Sea.
The house is located a two minute walk from the harbour and its restaurants and about ten minutes from Molyvos’ main beach. Ten leisurely minutes on Molyvos’ cobble streets will take you to the village bakery and the main market as well as pharmacies and the local medical centre. Around twenty minutes (slightly more at a leisurely pace) will bring you to the village’s medieval castle. All in all Molyvos Manor is ideally located for the person seeking relaxation in proximity to Molyvos’ active social life.
Molyvos Manor is part (half) of a large home built in 1926 by Ioannes Krallis after his wedding to Maritsa Kalligeris to house their family. The house was never truly lived-in since the premature death of Ioannes led Maritsa back to her family in the village of Sykamnia. In the years that followed it was occupied by the Germans (during WW II), the communist guerillas, the army, and earthquake victims. Only in the mid-eighties was it divided among Ioannes’ two sons Stratis and Nikos, and renovated. Stratis and his family lived in it for roughly 7 summers until they moved to a newer house in the middle of an olive grove in the village environs. Since 1994 the house (Stratis part), now called Molyvos Manor, has seen numerous guests, many returning year after year, choosing this unique spot for their vacations.
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The Krallis family can be found in Molyvos as early as the late seventeen hundreds. By the late nineteenth century they were part of a small circle of Greek and Turkish families involved in representing Molyvos to the Ottoman authorities and essentially running the village. This interesting blend of Greek identity with active participation in the Ottoman empire’s social and economic life can be seen in the folk art decorating the walls of the Krallis Mansion – currently in the stewardship of the Athens School of Arts – where images of Alexander the great stand opposed to whirling dervishes and depictions of Istanbul, the imperial centre towards which Molyvos and more generally the Island of Lesvos were directed.
After the incorporation of the Island in the Greek state in 1912 the family retained its prominent position in the village. In the mid-1920s Ioannes Krallis, father of the current owner of the neighbouring Molyvos Manor, built the power generator for Molyvos’ electric lighting. The power generator close to the harbour provided the village with electricity until the late 50s when Molyvos became part of Lesvos’ grid. Still, the second world war and family deaths led the Krallis family to Athens in the late 40s. Today Stratis and Nana spend six months a year in Molyvos and the rest of their time at their home in Athens. Their sons Dimitris and Yiannis live in Vancouver, BC and Athens.
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