In the course of a several centuries Arbanassi is a stronghold of the Greek influence. Greek language which is official here, the famous Greek school, and also the church liturgy do not influence the national conscience of the local population. The participation of people from Arbanassi in the series of rebellions is weak but this is evidence that the Bulgarian spirit can be felt here. The Kurjievi family is from Arbanassi. The brothers Georgi and Toma Kurjievi, one of them is a teacher and a man of letters, and the other one - Toma is a revolutionist. For protection from the outside they have solid stone sentry box-gates and for the night guard - bays (firidi). The windows are small with iron grids. The second type is a big house with thick stone foundations, the second floor is frame-built, plastered with lime. These houses are without balconies and bow-windows. The third type, the latest, appears in XVIII c. These houses have open verandah without windows covered with wooden lids witch open towards the garden. Modest and strict on its exterior outlook, without balconies and veranda, with grids on the windows and thickly covered gates, the Arbanassi house strikes with its wealth and luxury of its interior structure. The basement is built of stones, with vault entrances leading to big stables, cellars, and hiding places. Here is also the living place of the guard and the servants. Two staircases lead to the second floor - main and usual. The drawing-room, the summer and winter bed-rooms, the room for the lying-in woman, the kitchen, the oven (fonrio), the bathroom and the cellar are situated on the second floor. The rooms are situated from the both sides of one hallway (fhorismo). What attracts even today in the Arbanassi house is its inner decoration - the ceiling wood-carving, doors, windows, cabinets, plaster decorations of ceilings, jamal, friezes. All this is proof of the artful skill of the builder. In the preserved houses nowadays there is no special difference in their location. It is in the riches and diversity of the decoration which is proof not only of the taste and skills but also of the financial resources of the owner.