Author(s)

M. Karaveziroglou-Weber, E. Stavrakakis

Abstract

There are approximately registered 3000 historical stone buildings in Central Greece (in villages as well as in monasteries). All of them are of considerable age (i.e. their age is over hundred years) and many are masterpieces of the Greek architecture in past centuries. Their common structure is a two storey building with stone masonry walls and wooden floors, balconies, roofs as well as frames of windows and doors. Unfortunately most of these buildings suffer from lack of maintenance. The abandoning of most of them, particularly in the last fifty years, together with the influence of the climate conditions (windstorms, strong rainfalls, frequent snow- falls during winter) contributed to the aggravation of the state of these buildings, although many of them still remain in g

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