One of the most characteristic scenes in the film, “The Lady and the tramp”, is the moment when Aliki Vougiouklaki pops out of the window of her room because she does not want to get engaged to the man who was impressed to her by her cinema father, Dionysis Papayannopoulos. Then she becomes “Pipis” and meets her “tramp”, Dimitris Papamichail, where through a series of unfortunate misunderstandings she ends up looking for her in her father’s house. An impressive villa with huge interiors, a large garden with swimming pool and 70 rooms…

Villa Levidis” in Pallini, or “the tower with the 70 rooms.” In addition to the film, “The Lady and the Tramp”, the shooting for the film “A Greek lady from Kipseli” with Maro Konto and Alekos Alexandrakis was also made there…

The 80 acres of the villa were built in 1935. The architect, Konstantinos Sakellarios, was in charge of the construction of the luxurious residence of Levidis. Dimitris Levidis was a courtyard at the then royal estates of Tatoi, and with the “king’s concession”, he was allowed to settle in the land together with his family. In 1964, Levidis died and his wife, Toula Botsi, could not maintain the expensive house. So she started to rent the villa to production companies as a shooting studio. After she left life in 1990, her son sold it to a businessman in the area and left Greece…

Abandonment and pillage have left their marks everywhere in buildings and facilities…

The facilities were not used in the coming years because authorities believe that the area should not be built as it is a designated forest area. Since then, the villa “is raging”. Nothing reminds her of her old glamour. It has been burned, vandalized, stolen on everything, even the wiring of the electricity. The bad graffiti makes it look even more disappointing and gray…

Source: Time Machine
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