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Tinos: The Art of Dovecotes

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Tinos House: Just past Dyo Choria Village

Tinos House: Just past Dyo Choria Village


Dovecote and Windmill architecture has influenced Tinos architecture in general. Here we have a house built as a Dovecote would have been. It is a few meters past Dyo Choria Village. The road turns right and there you have two houses, one resembling a Windmill and this one.
Tinos Volax: Dovecote style decoration on a village house

Tinos Volax: Dovecote style decoration on a village house


Dovecote art has influenced architecture to a large extent. This house in Volax even uses marble pigeons to make the resemblance of its decoration to a dovecote more striking.
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Tinos : Three dovecotes past Krokos Village on the way to Komi

Tinos : Three dovecotes past Krokos Village on the way to Komi
Tinos: Dovecote past Krokos Village. It is the second dovecote of the three shown in the photo to the left

Tinos: Dovecote past Krokos Village. It is the second dovecote of the three shown in the photo to the left
Tinos: Another two Dovecotes in Tarambados Valley.

Tinos: Another two Dovecotes in Tarambados Valley.
Tinos Dovecote by the main road to Pyrgos, before getting to Kardiani Village

Tinos Dovecote by the main road to Pyrgos, before getting to Kardiani Village
Tinos Dovecote

Tinos Dovecote
Tinos Dovecote

Tinos Dovecote
Tinos, Tarambados Valley, Hide-And-Seek Play with the Dovecotes

Tinos, Tarambados Valley, Hide-And-Seek Play with the Dovecotes


Look carefully, and you'll see one of the hundreds of Tinos' dovecotes hiding in the bushes.
Tinos: Dovecote in Tarambados Valley. A second one is visible to the right

Tinos: Dovecote in Tarambados Valley. A second one is visible to the right
Tinos Peristereonas - Dovecote

Tinos Peristereonas - Dovecote