About 20 kilometers from the city of Mytilene and in the eastern part of the island, opposite the Asia Minor coast, is the settlement of Mistegna. In the area of Mistegna, in the hills covered with olive trees, the old nunnery of the Saints Akindyna is hidden. The...
The katholicon of the old holy monastery of Taxiarhon is located a short distance from the settlement of Kato Tritos and is preserved as the only remnant of the entire monastery complex of the Byzantine years for which there is not much historical evidence. It is...
The Metochion of the Taxiarchs belongs to the Leimonos monastery, which was founded by St. Ignatius Agallianos in the 16th century. It is very close to the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Klopedi and its church dedicated to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel...
It is a small late-Byzantine church of the 16th century, located in the center of the settlement of Petra, which is a low, single-aisled, wooden-roofed basilica, typical of the Middle Ottoman period, on the site of an early Christian church, parts of which are...
At the “Palios” location on the beach of Mandamados is the church of St. Stephen, cruciform inscribed with a dome. The dome had collapsed in the middle of the 19th century. and wooden beams with ceramic covering were placed in its place. It is a small...
