This research topic studies the reasons that led to the end of Saracatsans΄architecture. This is done both through the research of the existing literature, as well as through the field study in the community of Saracatsans in Eleftherochori, Magnesia. It is a village, in which in the middle of the 1960s a small community “tseligato” of Saracatsans, consisting of ten to twelve families, settled the village when they stopped practicing nomadism. As a result, several of them who lived their childhood years in the konakia and who were able to describe the process of transition from the konakia to the tiled houses of the village are still alive today.

In particular, through the research work an attempt is made to identify:

A. The exact period of time during which the Saracatsans left nomadism.

B. The ways in which this transition took place.

C. The reasons that led them to abandon their traditional way of life and habitation.

It is clear that their communities ‘‘tseligata’’ did not all disintegrate in the same way and at the same time, as there was no single and organized plan to change the way they lived. Another issue that is being studied at the same time is the reasons why the Saracatsans, after settling in a place, almost immediately abandoned theirs architecture and the new forms of architecture produced during the transitional period could not last long and quickly disappeared, as happened with every manifestation of Saracatsans΄culture in general. Finally, through the case of this small community in Eleftherochori, it was possible to record the views, opinions and experiences of the protagonists themselves of the disappearance of a primitive way of living. This research material is being delivered to the community of Social Anthropology researchers today.