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ROOFTILE AND BRICKWORKS MUSEUM N. & S. TSALAPATAS
VOLOS
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he Museum is housed in the old Rooftile and Brickworks Factory of Nikolaos and Spyridon Tsalapatas in Volos and since 2007 is part of the network of Thematic Museums of Technology created by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP). The Museum presents daily life in the factory, as well as all the production stages of different types of bricks and tiles, while it aims to showcase the historical identity of the town of Volos and to contribute to the preservation and promotion of its industrial heritage and to the development of cultural tourism in the wider region of Magnesia. Bear in mind that the N. & S. Tsalapatas Rooftile and Brickworks Factory was one of the largest of its kind.
COOL HOTELS & VILLAS
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Its restored workshops and industrial constitute a rare surviving example of an industrial complex in Greece. In the factory’s installations, the production chain has been reconstituted step by step: trolleys, clay silos, grinders, compressors, cutters, dryers, the imposing Hoffmann kiln, as well as end products, bricks and tiles of different kinds. Thus, the Tsalapatas Factory «functions» once again. *It was in 1995 when the Municipality of Volos bought the complex under the URBAN Programme. In the period between 1998 and 2001, the factory buildings were restored in order to create a cultural multiplex and, in 2004, PIOP undertook the creation of the museum on the plant’s premises. COOL HOTELS & VILLAS