What does ruga mean and what is its connection to the guesthouse in Vamvakou?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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Let\u2019s start from the beginning! The word ruga<\/em> stands for neighbourhood, quarter or mahalla. In the past, what was considered as a ruga was the main front yard of a house, the space between the house and the road or the road\/space between houses where neighbours would gather. There, women and men (mostly women) of all ages would get together and chat; they would \u201cdo a ruga\u201d \u2013 an expression that is used till nowadays in the villages of Laconia. Grandpas and grandmas would tell children stories and narrate fairy tales, while, when it got dark and the conversation was not over, they would continue inside the house. This was called nyxteri<\/em> (from the Greek word nyxta<\/em> for night). The heart of the neighbourhood would beat at the ruges of the villages \u2013 and especially of the small ones and the ones without a coffee house.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does ruga mean and what is its connection to the guesthouse in Vamvakou?\u00a0 Let\u2019s start from the beginning! The word ruga stands for neighbourhood, quarter or mahalla. In the past, what was considered as a ruga was the main front yard of a house, the space between the house and the road or the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-513","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n