Agios Georgios - Agios Georgios

Location magical !!!

We are talking about a Temple that was built on the Roman baths of the time and the researches of the archaeologists revealed both very important frescoes of the Byzantine period but also beautiful frescoes of the Roman period of Naxos. And it was built (in terms of baths) around the 3rd or 4th century AD. while the church is probably of the 12th century. In fact, it is included in route No. 6 in terms of hiking tourism, namely: Melanes (Agii Apostoli) - [Kourounochori] - Mills - Flerio (sanctuary of springs, ancient quarries) - Ano Potamia - Mesi Potamia - Kato Potamia - Episkopi (Agios Maama ) - Metropolitan Recent archaeological research in frescoes and inscriptions in the Church of Agios Georgios on Naxos suggests it was built on the ruins of another, early Christian church that may have been the oldest in the Balkans. The results of the research have yet to be published. Agios Georgios is in a paradisiacal spot next to the small river, some 100m from the village of Melanes

Baths that became Temple How important is the sacred temple located in the valley with the butterflies and next to the waterfalls? According to the website of Orinos Axotis "In the wider area of ​​the settlement of Melanes of Naxos on the bank of the stream that moves east of the settlement there is a church dedicated to Ag. George. The church is surrounded by ruins of walls that arouse interest. The 2nd EBA conducted a systematic survey (fresco cleaning) in the church. From the careful examination of the visible surface of some stone structures and from other elements that were correlated by the writers at the stage of imprinting, it was found that the naidrio is a reconstruction of a Roman bath. The finding was confirmed by the excavations that followed. The monument illuminates the era of late antiquity in Naxos and unites with a wonderful continuity the ancient and the Byzantine world. The inscription on the built-in entablature was written off in 1896 by Michael I. Markopoli. It was then published in the Syntagma of the inscriptions of Naxos (1903) by a print of Michael Crispy ". Essentially, we are talking about a Temple that was built on the Roman baths of the time and the research of archaeologists revealed such important frescoes of the Byzantine period as well as beautiful frescoes of the Roman period of Naxos. And it was built (in terms of baths) around the 3rd or 4th century AD. while the church is probably of the 12th century. In fact, it is included in the route No. 6 in terms of hiking tourism, namely: Melanes (Agii Apostoli) - [Kourounochori] - Mills - Flerio (sanctuary of springs, ancient quarries) - Ano Potamia - Mesi Potamia - Kato Potamia - Episkopi (Agios Maama ) - Metropolitan With information from the 31st Symposium of Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Archeology of the Christian Archaeological Society and the relevant report of archaeologists Themistoklis Billis & Maria Magnisali

Byzantine temple of St. George

Through a very beautiful path that passes through the picturesque village of Melanes, you reach the small church of Agios Georgios with the fantastic murals!