by anzac_admin | Jun 24, 2022
It is the Historical Information Center of Portianou village. The Information Center is a place concerning all the historical data and periods of Lemnos. Its interior is structured in sections. The first one refers to the mythology and the rest to the history of Lemnos from ancient times until the Ottoman Empire, to the liberation of the island by the Greek armed forces in 1912 and it culminates in the section on Lemnos, which was the rear of a large theater of operations of World War I, ie the Battle of Gallipoli and the presence of ANZAC on the island.
by anzac_admin | Jun 23, 2022
Supply store in Portianou square. It used to be a grocery store in 1915 and survives to this day. It is a ground-floor building of the early 20th century, built with local soft yellow stone and has a tiled roof. The exterior changes are minimal.
by anzac_admin | Jun 22, 2022
Supply store in Portianou square that survives to this day. It is a ground-floor building of the early 20th century, built with the local soft yellow stone and has a tiled roof.
by anzac_admin | Jun 21, 2022
This is the cafe in Portianou Square with the tree in front of it. It is the cafe depicted in many ANZAC photos, where the ANZAC used to rest from the summer of 1915 until the first days of January 1916. The current tree is not the one of 1915 but it has been replaced by a new one. The building is the same one, built with local soft yellow stone, and has also survived a fire. In its interior, there are many photographs of Portianou village from the time of the World War I.
by anzac_admin | Jun 20, 2022
At the entrance of Portianou village, the house of Vasilikos stands dominant. This house was used as accommodation and as a center of administration for both the French and the British. It was one of the few mansions located on the island outside of Moudros, built in the early 20th century and according to the testimonies of the locals, the First Lord of the Admiralty of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, stayed there during his visit in Lemnos. Nevertheless, the British records do not mention Churchill’s stay at Portianou village but instead the British Minister of War Lord Kitchener and General William Riddell Birdwood, who had disembarked in October 1915 at Moudros bay and toured the whole island, including Portianou village.
