According to tradition, the monastery grounds were, until the liberation of Macedonia (1912-1913), a fiefdom of Turku Bey, which had many Christian subjects, who had created their own settlement. This was also the reason he built a small temple, the original one of the monastery, which was
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The women's Monastery of Saints Constantine and Helen is located 2 km southeast of the historic village of Vogatsiko, at an altitude of 777 m, and belongs to the Metropolis of Sisani and Siatistis. After the discovery of the miraculous icon in the "Guliasiano" area, at the end of the 19th century, a
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It was probably built in the 17th century. The monastery had an active participation in the Macedonian Struggle. In fact, Pavlos Melas praises, in his letter, Abbot Grigorios for his hospitality and the reception he reserved for him in 1904, when he was there to escape from his persecutors. It was
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The Monastery of Saints Anargyros Cosmas and Damianos is located in the village of Melissotopos, 26 km from Kastoria, at an altitude of 870 m, and is the oldest Monastery of the Prefecture. The first Monastery, dedicated to Saint Panteleimon, was founded at the time of Alexios I Comnenus (1080). In
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In 1314 the Hieromonk Neophytos of Kleisouri founded the monastery. In 1813, another Kleisouriot monk, Isaias Pistas from the monastery of Iberon on Mount Athos, gave life to the monastery again by returning to his special homeland after a vision of the Virgin Mary. During the years of the
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It is located very close to the city of Kastoria next to Lake Orestiada and was built in 1082. Over the centuries various repairs have been made to the building, resulting in the destruction of a large part of the iconography. The frescoes that can be seen on the eastern wall of the monastery's
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It is located in the area of Agia Kyriaki. In the summer of 2003, the construction of the monastery began at the point where you say that a few decades ago the Virgin Mary appeared to three little girls, and today it functions as a women's convent. A small piece of the Holy Belt of the Most Holy
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