Qualla: Miaouli Square https://qualla.com/miaouli-square en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/miaouli-square-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Miaouli Square https://qualla.com/miaouli-square Miaouli Square: Introduction https://qualla.com/miaouli-square/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. Edward Lear passed through Ermoupolis on 6 April 1864 and wrote in his diary about 'the old sparkly pile' — his fond, slightly bemused affection for a city that had conjured itself from almost nothing in a single generation. At the centre of that sparkle, then as now, was Miaouli Square. Paved in white marble, framed by neoclassical facades, anchored by the bronze statue of a naval hero, it is the kind of square that a newly independent nation builds when it wants the world to understand that it has arrived. Syros had arrived. And this was where it made that announcement.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/miaouli-square-wp/sw9t-miaouli-square-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Miaouli Square: From Sand to Marble https://qualla.com/miaouli-square/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. In the early nineteenth century, the ground where the square now stands was a sandy lot with a single notable feature: the orchard of the Salaha family, which held two wells from which settlers bought water. The Municipality of Ermoupolis purchased the orchard in 1847 and commiss...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/miaouli-square-wp/sw9t-miaouli-square-from-sand-to-marble.mp3 0:06 2 full Miaouli Square: Names and Statues https://qualla.com/miaouli-square/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. The square was first named Othon Square, in honor of Otto of Greece, the Bavarian prince who became the first king of the modern Greek state. Then came the events of 1862. In October of that year, residents gathered in the square to hear the news of Otto's expulsion from Greece. ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/miaouli-square-wp/sw9t-miaouli-square-names-and-statues.mp3 0:06 3 full Miaouli Square: Ernst Ziller's Town Hall https://qualla.com/miaouli-square/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. The square's dominant building is the City Hall of Syros-Ermoupolis, designed by Ernst Ziller, with construction beginning in 1876 and completed in 1898. Ziller was Saxon-born, trained in Vienna, and had become the principal architect of the new Greek state — his fingerprints are...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/miaouli-square-wp/sw9t-miaouli-square-ernst-zillers-town-hall.mp3 0:06 4 full Miaouli Square: The Square as Stage https://qualla.com/miaouli-square/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. Miaouli Square has functioned as Ermoupolis's stage for over a century of Greek political life. In 1912, a large crowd assembled here to welcome Eleftherios Venizelos, the liberal statesman who had just led Greece into the Balkan Wars. In 1917, the same square rang with denunciat...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/miaouli-square-wp/sw9t-miaouli-square-the-square-as-stage.mp3 0:06 5 full Miaouli Square: The Square Today https://qualla.com/miaouli-square/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. The marble is still white, the admiral still stands at his post, and the facades around the square — neoclassical in their bones, weathered by Aegean decades — have lost none of their self-possession. The City Hall, the library, and the historical archive occupy the same building...

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