The Sentezis Villa

The original owner was Vassilios Sentezis who financed the construction of two architectural gems of our city in Marathonos Square in 1930. Today one of them houses the café-bar Aerino while the other one is an architectural masterpiece related to the hotel.
Vassilios Sentezis came from the forty churches of eastern Thrace and came as a refugee to Florina after 1922. Economically prosperous in his homeland, but also in his new homeland, he kept a workshop where workers made cement pipes and bathroom sinks and mosaic tiles. Sentezis, a remarkable personality of pre-war Florina, had all the characteristics of a bourgeois, he had money, education and taste as can be seen from his villas. He was a collector of various objects and he saved ancient coins with his collector’s passion.
The villa is built on a corner plot of land in Marathonos Square. It is developed on two main levels and a semi-basement.
The typology of the floor plan of the upper floor is characterized by the main body shaped in a “C” shape, where the main entrance is formed in the inner corner, with the monumental baroque staircase. The villa is a representative example of the “picturesque” architecture in Florina,
On the front, a triple arched opening is formed and a triangular pediment is formed on the back, where the date of construction is read in the centre: 1930.