Holy Mary Tripiti Monastery
Built in a rock on the site of an old monastery, over the town port, Holy Mary Tripiti is the protector of Aegio. According to tradition, in 1550 A.D., a castaway, in his attempt to find land, saw a light coming from the rock. As he came close he found the icon of Our Lady […]
Holy Monastery of Mega Spilaio
11km northeast to the town of Kalavrita, the Holy Monastery of Mega Spilaio is hewn to the west side of mount Chelmos at an altitude of 900m over the steep Vouraikos gorge. After their life as monks in Mount Athos and their pilgrimage in Jerusalem and Sina, monks Symeon and Theodore from Thessaloniki discovered, with […]
Isova Monastery in Trypiti
West of the village Trypiti, in a small valley, lay the ruins of the catholic Isova Monastery, one of the country’s most significant gothic monuments. It was built by Cistercian monks who arrived in the Peloponnese during the Frankish rule. There is a second Cistercian order monastery in the Peloponnese, the monastery of Zarakas in […]
Fragavila Monastery in Amaliada
In close distance to Amaliada (1,5km) lies the byzantine Fragavila Monastery which currently operates at a boarding house for Elis archbishopric. The monastery’s katholikon, a middle byzantine church, is one of the most significant in Elis. It is a tetrastyle dome transverse-vaulted church. Its inner decoration is contemporary to the monument’s construction while the newer […]
Saint Theodora Church of Arcadia
The miraculous small church of Aghia Theodora is located near the village of Vasta, in Megalopoli, and is one of the most remarkable sights in Arcadia. Situated within a beautiful, green landscape, many times it has been called “a miracle of nature”: from its roof spring out 17 trees, whose roots penetrate the walls and […]
Aimialon Monastery of Arcadia
The historic Aimialon Monastery, dedicated to Panaghia of Emiali is situated just outside Dimitsana, built inside the rock. It was founded in 1608, according to the owners’ inscription, by Grigorios Kontogiannis, a monk and priest, and his sister, nun Efpraxia Paisia Kontogianni, from Emiali, a village in the Prefecture of Messenia, whence the monastery took […]
Prodromos Monastery of Arcadia
The Prodromos monastery (Timiou Prodromou) is built on a huge vertical rock inside Lousios river gorge and offers a thrilling enthusiasm to the visitors of historical Greek region. In addition to its architectural specificity, this monastery has played a very important role during the Greek revolution against the Turkish occupation in the 18th and 19th […]
Philosofos Monastery of Arcadia
The Philosofou Monastery is located in the Prefecture of Arcadia, south of Dimitsana, at the gorge of the river Lousios. It is also known as Emiali Monastery and comprises two parts, an older and a newer one, at a small distance within each other. The older part was built in 963 A.D. by Ioannis Lambardopoulos, […]
Voulkanou Monastery in Messini
On the summit of mountain Ithomi, near ancient Messene, on a natural rock, stands imposingly the old Monastery of Voulkano, overlooking the Messenian valley that extends in front of it. This Monastery was most probably built in the beginning of the 8th century by iconodule monks; according to tradition, the exact spot where the monastery […]
Velanidia Monastery in Kalamata
The Holy Monastery of Zoodochos Pighi of Velanidia is located 6 kilometres north of Kalamata, built at an altitude of approximately 400 metres. According to the date written on the lintel, it was founded in 1679 and it owes its name to the agelong oak tree that was growing in its yard. The Monastery played […]