The Second Chance School of Mytilene in the Municipal Gallery and Castle of Mytilene

On Tuesday 23/4 the Second Chance School SDE Mytilini made an educational visit to the Municipal Art Gallery of Mytilini. There students and teachers had the opportunity to admire the works of great artists such as Yiannis Tsarouchis, G. Gounaropoulos, Ant. Protopatsi, of Or. Kanellis, Picasso, Matisse, Moralis, Fasianos, Xr. Mpotsoglou, engravings by Bassos Katraki and a series of paintings by many other important Greek paintersn.

The Municipal Gallery is housed in an old three-storey mansion (Xalim Mpei), a typical example of local architecture, which dominates the area of ​​Epano Skala. It belongs administratively to the Municipality’s Cultural-Tourist Development Enterprise and has one of the most important collections of paintings, which was donated to the Municipality by George Simos-Petris and his sister Elli Simos.

George Simos-Petris was one of the most important technical critics of the country, an “intellectual” of visual art, a personal friend of the greatest Greek painters. After his death, he donated his personal collection, consisting of 110 paintings, to the Municipal Gallery (August 1998), while the collection was completed with a newer donation (September 2001) by his sister, Elli Simou.

Afterwards, guided by the philologist of the SDE of Mytilini, a tour of the area of ​​the Castle of Mytilini followed. First in the area of ​​Kato Kastro with the Ottoman Loutro and the Fountain, then in the cave church of Panagia Galatousa and the walk was completed around the perimeter to the area of ​​Phykiotrypa with a look back at the history and the residential use of the Castle before and after the liberation Lesvos in 1912.