Urban Exploration in a histrorical Greek Villa!! Beatiful Graffiti art inside!!

Hello, friends of the xpilar community! Today I'm back with another article on urban exploration. This time, I went to a historical abandoned place in Pallini, a few kilometers outside of Athens. I accidentally discovered this location through some Instagram images, and after doing some research, I discovered that it is a building with a glorious history, and I was eager to visit it immediately.

It is a seventy-room villa that was constructed in 1935 for the ex Greek King Paul and sits on an 80-acre hilltop property. One year after its construction for unexplained reasons, King Paul transferred the ownership of the building to the Chamberlain of Tatoi palaces, Dimitris Levidis, Who settled there with his family until 1963 when he died. Following the owner's death, the villa ownership is passed to his widow, who was in financial difficulty due to debts left to her by her husband and agrees to rent the villa to a film production company as a filming studio in order to cover the family's basic expenses. Later Villa Levidis became associated with the golden age of Greek cinema, and many popular Greek films were filmed in this house. The imposing arches of the entrance are a popular picture from movies that most Greeks can remember.

Tula Botsi, the villa's owner, dies in 1990, and her only heir is her son, who intends to sell the villa. Almost a year later, the historic structure was sold to Greek businessmen whose names were never revealed. The day before the transfer agreements were to be signed something unexpected occurred. Villa Levidi was completely destroyed by vandals, who left almost nothing standing. Later investigations found that the house burned downand some parts of it collapsed. Since then, several people have gone there in search of secret treasures. Through the years they have demolished and dug walls, even laid cables in order to sell them.

This building had many glorious moments, but as it deteriorated and was completely ruined, it also had many bad moments. According to legend, the building was used by German soldiers to torture and execute 150 rebel Greek soldiers during the German occupation. It is also said that satanic groups later used it for satanic rituals in the vast basement of the house. After spending nearly an hour in this basement, I found no evidence of satanic ceremonies activity, just some pictures of Satan that I thought were humorous.

Villa Levidi, like other abandoned buildings I've visited before, is decorated with numerous works of art on its worn walls. Despite the sad atmosphere generated by the picture of abandonment, the graffiti and hundreds of wall paintings produce beautiful feelings like being in a very innovative painting exhibition that is taking place in an old dilapidated house. I've included some of the murals that I photographed during my visit to this building below. I warn you there are too many!!

One of the most striking aspects of the beautiful murals was that some of them, seemingly produced by the same artist, had an unusual painting style. It's difficult for me to clarify, but I'll do my best. A work of art that is divided in several places into the walls, but when viewed from a certain perspective, it appears to be one mural. In addition, the artist has used some of the building's frames in his drawings, such as the one below, where he used the windows to form the eyes.

There were also several "nsfw" murals that were really impressive.

I also really liked some works by a particular artist. I realized it was from him as the painting style was very similar. It is a great pity that such works of art are located in such deserted places.

Although I have admired many of the works of art I saw there that day, one stood out from the rest. The final picture for today portrays a human face, and despite the details in the facial features and eyes, I can't tell if it's a man or a woman. Its gaze is deep and mysterious, and its face appears disturbed. I believe he is a guy who has been badly hurt by fate in his life and looks at you with the kind of look that says, "Can I trust you?" or "You will hurt me!" and so on.