Places of interest in Tylisos Municipality

• Monasteries, Churches 
• Monument in Keratidi area of Damasta
• Windmill in Gonies
• Old Watermill in Gonies
• Astirakas in the church of Agios Konstantinos in Astiraki
• Old marble fountain in Palia Vrisi area in Kamari
• Traditional Fountain in Kamariotis square
• Exhibition of sculptures of Marathian sculptor Ioannis Klinakis
  
  
  
  

BIOGRAPHY

 Ioannis Klinakis was born in 1938 in the village Marathos of Malevizi.  

Six  years  later, on August 21, 1944, his father, along with sixteen other people from Marathos, were executed by German troops. So in short, like all children, he experienced the brutality of the occupation and the uncertainty of the postwar years. He worked for many years as a farmer and laborer in quarry and public works.
 In 1964 he moved with his family in Athens, where he worked as a bricklayer while he developed significant union activity until 1979. In 1969 he worked for the first time in sculpture. Gradually, he was devoted in sculpture, reducing working as a bricklayer.

Initially he worked for  sculptor  Memas Kalogeratos at the foundry. In 1971  found near the renowned sculptor and painter, Christos Kapralos, and he was influenced greatly from him.

From 1979 until now devoted exclusively to sculpture.  
In 1985 he set up  the Monument of his village (Marathos), his own works in bronze and created a set of memorial for the fallen and the National Resistance.

In 1991 he joined the “Fine Arts Chamber” and the same year became member of the board of “Christos Kapralos” Foundation until January 1996, when dissolved and transferred to the National Gallery.

Four years later (1995) he moved from Athens to Aegina, where he is working until now and also has the responsibility of the “Christos Kapralos” museum.

The human figure is the main theme of his work in metal, marble, and in recent years only on wood. He has presented a series of anthropomorphic Cretan lyres, a section for 1821 Greece freedom fighters, 1940-1944 National Resistance and sculptures with symbolic content. The elongation of forms, rough surfaces and intonation of the heroic-dramatic elements characterizes his sculptures. His works are mainly in private collections in Greece and abroad.

She has presented his work in solo exhibitions (“Petition “-1972, “Art Gallery “ Heraklion-1993, '”Ersi “-1996) and has taken part in group exhibitions “Ancient  Olympia “-1991 to 1992, “Sculpture 97”  Thessaloniki, 1997, etc.)

He donated his artworks to Municipality of Tylisos to be exposed at the “Art space of Marathos”, a place that was created to host permanently his work which is considered as Significant Culture Heritage to all of us.