Today’s selection of Thursday Doors comes from the fantastic lakeside town of Ioannina, Greece. Ioannina and the surrounding Epirus region on the mainland are my latest favorite places to explore in Greece. We spent a short but action-packed five days there in the heat of July.

As I walked the avenues near the Castle of Ioannina, abandoned homes with chained and barricaded doors dotted the neighborhood. Many of the distressed doors were tucked in between well-kept homes and likely wouldn’t be noticed by passersby on cell phones or those rushing to their destinations. As I put this post together, Tom Petty’s song, Don’t Come Around Here No More, started playing in my head and it won’t go away.

This abandoned home sporting the door shown in the featured image sits adjacent to the beautifully restored one below that now houses the Presveia restaurant where we enjoyed a delicious lunch on their open-air back patio. More to come on Presveia later.

Here’s a look at the front entrance to the Presveia restaurant. I found it amazing that the owners left the dining chairs out unsecured. It says something about the safe nature of the town.

Here’s a boarded-up door that definitely shouts, Don’t Come Around Here No More.

This former beauty with the arched transom can’t get no respect with graffiti flanking it on both sides.

I almost missed this door made practically invisible by the mesh netting and dried-out plants covering it.

I still scratch my head trying to figure out the setup of the graffitied doors on this old house. To be fair to this lovely town, and to assure you that I don’t hang out in derelict places, below are a few street views of the avenues I walked for my doorscursion in Ioannina.

Cheers!

Inspired by Thursday Doors.