The Monastery of Agios Gerasimos is located at the highest point of the traditional settlement of Makrinitsa, 17 km from Volos. It is a women's monastery, built under a rock, dating around 1792. Here Saint Gerasimos the Younger (mid 17th century - 1741) built his cell, while after his death a church
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The Monastery of Saint Lawrence was built by Roman Catholic Benedictine monks during the Crusades, in the 11th century. The monastery was later abandoned to be rebuilt as an Orthodox monastery by Saint Lawrence of Trebizond, a monk from the Great Lavra of Mount Athos. The reconstruction of the
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The Androa Monastery of Agia Triado is built on a rocky hill (altitude 240 m.), in the village of Ano Gatzea, 20 km from the city of Volos. Nikolaos G. Tziortzos (or Tsourtsis) is mentioned as the founder of the Monastery. On the north side of the monastery, a tower is preserved from the Venetian
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A short distance from the Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of Agios Georgios Nileias, near Agios Vlasios, in the place of Karambas (altitude 400 m.) is the Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Its foundation dates back to the year 1900 and its reopening in 1979. Today it
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The Old Monastery of Panagia Kato Xenia is located 16 km from the town of Almyros. The name "Xenia" comes from the ancient term "Xenia" and refers to hospitality. It is also said that there was an ancient temple of Xenios Dios in the area who gave his name to the Monastery. Its foundation dates back
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The Pammegiston Taxiarchon Monastery of the village of Agios Georgios Nilias is located at an altitude of 650 m, approximately 20 km from the city of Volos. It was founded around the 12th AD. century, in 1310 it was completely destroyed by Catalan pirates and was rebuilt in its current position by
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The Monastery of Panagia Lampidona is built in the settlement of Labinos in the Municipality of Afeto, in eastern Pelion. It is said that a ship was in danger of sinking and the captain begged the Virgin Mary to help him by promising that, where his cannon ball would land, he would build a monastery
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The Monastery of Panagia Odegetria Portaria is located at an altitude of 620 m, 500 m from Portaria. It is a women's Monastery, which follows the old calendar, and hosts about 30 nuns. It was founded in 1961 and is today a Metochi of the Holy Monastery of Philotheos of Mount Athos. The former
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The Transfiguration Monastery of Sotiros (or Flamouri Monastery) is located in the village of Flamouri, in northwestern Pelion. It was founded around 1583 by the saintly monk Simeon the Monochiton and Immaculate (+1594), who received a blessing for the foundation of the monastery from Patriarch
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In the traditional settlement of Stagiates, 10 km northeast of Volos, is the Monastery of the Annunciation. This is where the old man Ephraim Philotheitis of America lived when he came out of Mount Athos. The walled monastic area includes the church of Evangelistria (three-aisled stone-built
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The Monastery of Timiou Prodromou is located on the south-eastern side of Pelion, in the village of Syki (altitude 290 m.), 38 km from Volos. It was built in 1795 by the Epirus Municipality of Zoupaniotis with the sponsorship of the chieftain Stergios Basdekis. It was a men's monastery with a large
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The Monastery of Agios Nikolaos is built at Pau, 2 km southwest of Argalasti, and covers an area of 600 acres. It has been granted until 2084 to the University of Thessaly for the operation of a Cultural-Conference Center. The Monastery was founded in 1732 and was destroyed by the Turks in 1831.
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MONASTERY OF SAINT BARBARA MONASTERY OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE SAVIOR OF FLAMOURI MONASTERY OF PANAGIA XENIA MONASTERY OF OF ARCHANGELS OF AGIA VARVARA MONASTERY OF EVANGELISM
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