The Monastery of Agia Varvara, is the oldest Monastery in Skopelos, it must have been built in 1648, it is surrounded by a thick and high wall reminiscent of a medieval fortress and its iconostasis is the oldest in Skopelos (15th century), It is located near the women's monastery of the Holy
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It is located 10 minutes southwest of the Monastery of Sotiros. It is called by the locals the nursery of Agios Ioannis the Baptist "in Kampos". This small church of the 16th-17th century is part of the monastery and celebrates on August 29. On August 28, the eve of the holiday, you can watch the
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The Monastery of Ai Giannis in Kastri which is located on the top of a 100 m high rock that juts out of the sea, and you need to climb 200 steps carved on the rock, to reach its top, where your eyes face the small church of, a magnificent landscape and a wonderful view. Tradition says that a
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It is a private monastery from the beginning of the 17th century. The exact time of foundation is not known, but it is mentioned in firmans of the Prodromos Monastery as a debtor. It must therefore have existed around 1610. It celebrates on September 20 and May 5. There is the possibility of summer
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The Monastery is dedicated to the patron and protector of the island and is located 2 km northwest of the town of Skopelos. The Monastery was built on the ruins of a Byzantine church according to an inscription, in 1728. In the courtyard of the monastery there is the tomb of Agios Riginos in a small
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It is a building from the era of the Turkish occupation. A part of an early Christian church from 672 AD was saved in the courtyard of the Monastery. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the monastery was dedicated as a metochi to the Athonian Monastery of Xiropotamos, but then, with the consent
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The monastery of Evangelistria, which is located on the mountainside and its fortress appearance, is associated with pirate raids. It was built in 1712, on the ruins of an older Byzantine Monastery, by the Skopelite monk Kaisarios Daponte and belongs to the Xiropotamos monastery of Mount Athos.
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Episkopi, two kilometers south of the town of Skopelos, was the seat of the bishop of the island from the early Christian era to the modern times. The Episkopi complex in its current form is a Venetian building. In its center is a small single-aisled church from the 16th - 17th century, built on the
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The Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi or Panagia tis Livadiotissa, is an old share of Saint Catherine of Sinai. Its katholikon is a one-room private church with a wooden roof. Important images are kept there, such as his late-Byzantine boat icon which depicts the Dormition of the Virgin in the center and
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Built in the 17th century, it is a member of the Monastery of the Great Lavra of Mount Athos and is located in Stefani. It is said that around 1670 the noble Manolaki family from Skopelos dedicated to M. Megistis Lavras their 2nd share in Skopelos, the Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin, known
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It was built in the late 15th-early 16th century. In 1636 it was designated as a Stauropigian Monastery with a Patriarchal Seal, while in 1770 it was donated by the Evangelical family to Papa-Paisios the Kawsokalyvitis. The Monastery is part of the Xenophon Monastery of Agioreita. The katholikon
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The Holy Forerunner Monastery was renovated in 1721 by Hieromonk Filaretos. The catholicon of the monastery belongs to the type of tetragonal cruciform inscribed church with lateral choirs (Athonic type). Its wood-carved, gilded iconostasis is richly decorated with birds, animals, plants and
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It is a small monastery (monydrio) from the end of the 17th century and is located in the Kotronaki area, on the south side of Chora. It is a unique example of a three-bay temple on the island. It celebrates on September 14. Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
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