The active men’s monastery of Leimonos is located in the center of Lesvos and at a distance of 14 km from Kalloni in a fertile basin in the center of a meadow. It was founded during Byzantine times and functioned until the Ottoman occupation of the island in...
It is a women’s monastery dedicated to the Assumptions of the Virgin Mary, which was deserted in recent years. The Perivoli monastery is located in the western part of the island, just outside the settlement of Adissa on the bank of the Voulgaris river on a...
Just outside the mountainous village of western Lesvos, Antissa, on top of the mountain “Halakas” is the old abandoned male monastery of Taxiarches, known as H.M. Kreokopou. The site is full of beauty and remarkable geological significance. Regarding the...
On a picturesque hill to the east of Polichnitos, where dense olive groves and tall poplars dominate, is the Damandriou monastery dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin. Damandri was a village in the area until the 16th century, which was destroyed during pirate...
H.M. Panmegiston Taxiarhon Pithario Eresou known as “Pithari” is located in a hollow ravine between hills that crown it, forming around it an imaginary pithari, the bottom of which has recently been turned into an artificial lake by the construction of a...
