Signing a new contract with the municipality Metsovo

Our company ROIKOS S.A.(leader) in joint venture with the architectural design company MEAS S.A, following a tender launched by the Municipality of Metsovo, undertook the contract titled: “ Detailed study for the building rehabilitation and landscape design of the Preindustrial Culture and Tourist Promotion Museum of Metsovo”. The contract was signed on the 30^th of December 2013, with a total fee of 295.579,00, plus VAT, and six months overall deadline for completion.

The project is included in, and co-funded by, the Operational Programme “Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship” (code MIS 372970) of the NSRF 2007-2013.

The contract’s scope is the conduct of the necessary detailed studies (architectural, structural and EMP), as well as the compilation of the tender documents and the processes for adhering to health and safety regulations, for the above project.

The museum, which will demonstrate the culture of the preindustrial era of Metsovo and the evolution of the local production from the 17^th century till today, will be hosted in the stone-masonry building that used to be the carpentry factory owned by Baron Michael Tositsa’s Institute (1955), located at the entrance of the town of Metsovo. The factory is an open plan, fully-equipped industrial building, donated by the Tositsa’s Institute in order to provide the opportunity to professional carpenters from Metsovo to manufacture their timber products, in times when the cost of the equipment required was unbearable for most of them.

The Tositsa’s Institute, which is a very important benefactor of the town has as a principle to continuously upgrade the town of Metsovo, and in this context has offered the building, including its surrounding area of approx 1,3 Ha, to the municipality of Metsovo for the implementation of the above project.

In the premises of the Museum, the following items of the local history will be exhibited:

• The Metsovo settlement since the 17^th century (location, land relief that uniquely determines the inhabitants main occupation till today, the ethnic characteristics of the area and the situation during the Ottoman rule),
• The development of animal husbandry (as a household economic operation and its trade),
• The development of textile arts (as a household economic operation and its trade),
• The development of logging and timber manufacturing,
• The development of woodcarving,
• The development of the building craftsmanship and local architecture,
• The development of silver art and craftsmanship,
• The development of trade (connections with economic centres abroad in Egypt, Russia, Italy, Balkan countries),
• The National Benefactors – Institutes,
• The modern contemporary industrial units in the town which produce good quality products with wide recognition and export orientation (cheese and dairy products, “Katogi Averoff” winery,)
• The linkages between all of the above, together with proposed site visits and natural and cultural routes in the wider area of the town.