PALAIOPANAGIA BYZANTINE CHURCH, KANTZA

                                             HARVATI PEAK, MARKOPULO

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THE BYZANTINE MONASTERY OF SAINT NIKOLAOS ON PENTELI MOUNTAIN

THE BYZANTINE MONASTERY OF SAINT ANARGYROI

AND THE HERMIT CAVES.

The monastery of Saints Anargyroi(the penniless ones) is situated in Aghia district, in the prefecture of Larisa, near a small river in the forest clearing of a narrow gorge and close to high rocks on the east where the hermit places are situated.

Τhe main temple is an one room wooden temple with religious wall painting fragments that are dated back in the 17 C. Written documents confirm its existence back in 1588(Post Byzantine period) while it was renovated sometime in the 17 C. We can not exclude the possibility that it was built during the Byzantine period. From the courtyard it is saved only a defense tower with a small bolt.
In a close distance, inside a large hole there are preserved two hermit places that are dated back in the 12ου century where we can admire religious paintings on the natural wall stones, the largest of them is made of three natural small cave temple.

It is situated in a wonderful landscape, inside a small forest of plane trees close to the riverside and it has rare samples of Byzantine art.

UNKNOWN ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΕ MONUMENTS

Between the 2 parts of a massive mountain (Egaleo si Poikilo) rests Dafniu Monastery (11ος αι. μ.χ.) which has been declared by UNESCO  a monument of cultural inheritance. Unfortunately, such a wonderful monument which beautiful friscos inside is not at the moment accesible to the pubic. We hope that soon this situation will change.
Furthemore, someboby can walk on a couple of beautiful paths that start near the Monastery