Travelositive [old]

Back in 2008, when I visited my moms tiny island in the Philippines, I took a lot of footage and published my 1st article in a widely distributed travel magazine of that time in Greece, they even featured my photo for the front cover. I provided all the photographs and the story, they did the layout and added a bit of editorial info. I am sharing the article here, the images are actual scans of the magazine, apologies for the medium quality of the scans (didn't have a good scanner back then), the magazine is in Greek but I provide an English translation of my story  below (only what I wrote without any added info from the magazine) plus the photos which were used for the article reposted - there are many more nice relevant photos for the story but since this post is about the actual article, the extra photos will be posted in different posts with more information and the full stories. Finally I want to dedicate this post to my grandfather Victorio who passed away in 2016: ...

The circular tower and entrance to the ruined villa. It was once known as "Levidi Villa" (Βίλα Λεβίδη) or the "mansion with the 70 rooms". Apart of its high society gatherings it was used extensively as a setting for some of the best Greek cinema movies of the 50s and 60s. Today -whatever is left of it- lays in ruins... This is the entrance -shortcut- to the hill from Marathonos avenue. The hill is named "Levidi Hill" from the villas name. You keep on going uphill for like 5-10 min. and you arrive at the entrance of the villa. Arriving at the entrance of the villa, the 1st thing you see is the circular tower. The villa was built in 1935 but the circular tower was already there. There is no information for the tower but it was probably Othoman and built around the 17th-18th century in order to act as a lookout for the area. Some of the movies which were shot here include "Το Λεβεντόπαιδο", "Μια Ιταλίδα από την Κυψέλη...