The coat of arms
The knight’s coat of arms, found buried in the house.
The knight’s coat of arms, found buried in the house.
The story of Bishop and Knight Pierro Justiniani and the mansion’s original coat of arms belongs at the heart of The Knight’s Retreat identity.
Rather than reducing the history to decoration, the new identity treats the surviving architecture and original heraldic material as evidence of a real past. The restored coat of arms should appear here as an artefact — and elsewhere only as a restrained seal.
The knight’s coat of arms, found buried in the house.
The knight’s coat of arms, found buried in the house.
Adjoining the Bishop’s House, the remains of an early-18th-century stone building provide an extraordinary setting for photographs — weathered stone, open sky and centuries of Tinos history.
Available by arrangement for private photography.
In front of the old ruin stands a solitary upright stone. Its origins are unknown. Ask the elders of the village and the answer is wonderfully simple: “It’s been there since the old times.”