FEBS MPST 2011

September 2-7, 2011, Spetses, Greece

BOUBOULINAS HOUSE

The contribution of the island in the Greek Revolution has been identified with the action of the heroine Laskarina Bouboulinas. She is the woman that consecrate ones life to the fight for the freedom. The mansion house of the captain woman, as the local habitants called her, functions from her descendants as museum.
The visitor has the opportunity to be informed, from the guide, the facts of life of Bouboulinas, from then that she was born in a Turkish prison, her initiation to the Friendly Company (Filiki Etairia), her action during the fight, and finally her inglorious death. The heroine was killed during a familial conflict in her house.
Also the visitor will see the house in which lived Laskarina and many personal belongings of her.