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Small narrow streets, arches, stables and cellars under the houses. People here are kind, simple, hospitable, smiling. An agricultural village, like most of them in Tinos island, which today borders with those of Kampos and Smardakitou.

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Once , however , the area of Mesaria (Mesa Meri Tinos) , which is located in the center , we would say of the island .

The inhabitants of the three villages, namely Mesarea, Karados and Kouroupados, either died or emigrated because of the plague epidemic in a date ranging around the middle of the 17th century. Tarambados is the last village built on the island.

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Research by the Catholic Archives assures us that the village must have started to be built in the second half of the 17th century and was completed in the early 18th century.

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The total absence of any mention of this settlement throughout the earlier period, combined with the multiple references to another settlement in the area, Potamos, which no longer exists, assures us that some tragic event forced its inhabitants to abandon their settlement and build a new one on higher ground.

We have no specific testimony as to whether this resettlement was due to an epidemic or an invasion, but it must have been massive. The River is no longer mentioned, except as an agricultural area.

Tarambados owes its name to the nickname "Tarambas" which exists to this day and who was probably a landowner in the area (Fr. Markos Foskolos, op. cit., 6-7).

The suffix -ados is typical of most of the settlements on the island , which were built from the Gizokrazia (1207-1390) and the Venetian rule (1390-1715) based on the feudal organization of the island and the clustering of poor and/or landless peasants around the house of a rich landowner.

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Fr. Markos Foskolos in his more recent communication on the above villages (Tinos outside the walls: The Lower Parts, 43 - 57) speaks of the definitive disappearance of Mesarea from 1728, the definitive move of the inhabitants of Karados in 1753 to Xinara and the incorporation of Potamos into a parish with Smardaitos from 1642 and the gradual shift of inhabitants from the mid-18th century with the simultaneous creation of Tarampados.

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At the same time, based on the documents, he notes the writing of a will in 1769 in Kurupado due to plague and the warding of the sick, who were left a small opening to receive food and water while they were alive.