The Raisin Institute building is located at the southwest end of the town of Pyrgos. It is a two-storey elevated building, which was built at the beginning of the 20th century and since 1928 has functioned as a Research Institute for the cultivation of Corinthian raisins.
The Raisin Institute of Pyrgos was one of the raisin institutions and over time it acquired three departments, the agricultural, the industrial and the chemical, while it also housed, until recently, a meteorological station.
The Institute building is of interest both for its architecture and for historical reasons. In the wider area of Ilia, the cultivation of raisins was an important agricultural occupation and one of the most important Greek export products that contributed significantly to the development of the modern Greek state.
