Moni Timiou Prodromou

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• Pts Pts

  27 September 2017

  Worth the hike. Unreal that dedicated monks still live and meditate here. Credit to them! This is rural

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• Panagiotis Georgoulas

  26 April 2017

  Breath taking monastery in to the wild of Lousios river with a unique view

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• Thanos Fonias

  14 December 2016

  Fantastic spectacle

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• Ranssom

  10 August 2016

  The Timiou Moni Prodromou (Greek: Μονή Τιμίου Προδρόμου) (i.e. for Greek Monastery of the Holy Precursor) is a famous Greek monastery, very picturesquely situated on the eastern bank of the Lousios gorge. It houses today still an important monastic community (± 15 monks?) And is accessible from Stemnitsa , Dimitsana and Ellinikon through a very meandering and not too good way.
  
  According to tradition it was founded in 1167 by Emperor Manuel Comnenus, but reliable sources situate the foundation of the current monastery rather somewhere in the 16th century. It is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, which is called in the Orthodox tradition usually Prodromos, i.e. Precursor (of Christ).
  
  The monastery has two churches. The oldest is very small (only 2.25 x 4.90 m) and lies against the rock face. The peculiar arrangement of the iconostasis (which forms an angle of ± 45 ° with the nave) is explained by the lack of available space. The frescoes late 16th / early 17th century were applied directly to the wall. Around this church were gradually built on the other monastic buildings whose balconies hang high above the Lousios gorge. A second church, architecturally less important, more recent (1911), and is isolated at a distance from the other buildings. She is committed to the orthodox Holy Athanasios of Christianoupolis, who lived around the turn of the 18th century, and was buried in the monastery after his death.
  
  From here you can descend via a walkway to the bed of the Lousios, and hence reach the nearby monastery of the Philosopher.
  
  -From "Wikipedia" the free encyclopedia

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• David Carter

  08 June 2016

  Gob smacking collection of rooms stuck on to the side of the cliffs! The entrance is fairly conventional, although the building is cut into the rock. The church is the usual beautiful mystical Greek chapel you'd expect. You then proceed upstairs and suddenly there you are - on the balcony. It looks so safe from there - it looks scary from below. You don't get as far as the rooms supported on rotting pit props.
  A bit of a pull back up to the car park, but then you'll probably be walking along the gorge anyway.

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• Danish Adventurer

  04 July 2015

  This place is hard to get. It takes hours of driving BUT it's worth the whole trip. The atmosphere - the view. I recommend this trip to everyone who likes religious historical sights out of the ordinary. You can go all day long without entering.
  Closed from 13.00 to 17.00.

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