Archeologikos Choros Panagia Vlacherna - Archeologikos Choros Panagia Vlacherna

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Arta 471 00, Greece

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Postal code : 471
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Arta 471 00, Greece
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Η Παναγία των Βλαχερνών είναι βυζαντινή εκκλησία και κτίστηκε από την Αγία Θεοδώρα και τον σύζυγό της Μιχαήλ Κομνηνό του οποίου ο τάφος βρίσκεται εντός της εκκλησίας. Ο ναός είναι ανακαινισμένος και βρίσκεται στο ομώνυμο χωριό.Ο ναός είναι διακοσμημένος με υπέροχες τοιχογραφίες και μαρμάρινους κίονες με περίτεχνα σκαλίσματα.
The Virgin Mary of Blacherna is a Byzantine church and was built by Aghia Theodora and her husband, Michael Komnenos, whose tomb is inside the church. The temple is renovated and is located in the homonymous village. The temple is decorated with magnificent frescoes and marble columns with ornate carvings.
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Nikolaos Moropoulos on Google

Η μονή ιδρύθηκε στις αρχές του 10ου αιώνα. Ο ναός κτίσθηκε ως τρίκλιτη θολωτή βασιλική και στα μέσα του 13ου αιώνα (1250-1260) ανακατασκευάστηκε απ’ τον (ή επί) Μιχαήλ Β΄ και μετασκευάστηκε σε τρουλλαίο. Στο νέο κτίσμα ενσωματώθηκαν υλικά και ολόκληρα τμήματα τοίχων απ’ τον αρχικό ναό…. ο νάρθηκας προστέθηκε λίγο αργότερα, δηλαδή στο τέλος του 13ου αιώνα, ενώ το κωδωνοστάσιο που είναι ενσωματωμένο στη δυτική πλευρά, είναι πολύ νεότερη προσθήκη (19ος αιώνας). (Από το σχετικό άρθρο της Περιφερειακής Ενότητας Άρτας) Ο ναός δεν είναι μόνο ένα εκκλησιαστικό μνημείο. Είναι και το μαυσωλείο του Δεσπότη (Ηγεμόνα) της Ηπείρου Μιχαήλ Β΄ Κομνηνού Δούκα (1230 – 1271). Στο ναό αναπαύονται και δύο από τους γιους που απέκτησε ο Μιχαήλ Β’ με την γυναίκα του Θεοδώρα (1210 – 1280), που έγινε οσία. Η Αγία Θεοδώρα είναι η πολιούχος της Άρτας. Λέγεται ότι ο Δεσπότης Μιχαήλ Β’ ανακατασκεύασε το ναό σαν ένδειξη μετανοίας για την έκφυλη ζωή του, που τον αποξένωσε από την σεμνή και πιστή γυναίκα του Θεοδώρα για μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα. Το Δεσποτάτο της Ηπείρου ιδρύθηκε από τον Μιχαήλ Α΄ Δούκα το 1204, μετά την κατάκτηση της Κωνσταντινούπολης από τους Σταυροφόρους. Το Δεσποτάτο κατέρρευσε το 1449, οπότε η Άρτα κατελήφθη από τους Οθωμανούς. Κατά κάποιο τρόπο λοιπόν ο ναός συμβολίζει την περίοδο του Δεσποτάτου, στην οποία κτίσθηκαν και τα περισσότερα από τα σωζόμενα βυζαντινά μνημεία της Άρτας.
The monastery was founded in the early 10th century. The church was built as a three-aisled vaulted basilica and in the middle of the 13th century (1250-1260) it was rebuilt by (or during) Michael II and transformed into a dome. The new building incorporated materials and entire sections of walls from the original temple…. the narthex was added a little later, ie at the end of the 13th century, while the bell tower that is integrated on the west side, is a much newer addition (19th century). (From the relevant article of the Arta Regional Unit) The church is not just an ecclesiastical monument. It is also the mausoleum of the Despot (Hegemon) of Epirus Michael II Komnenos Doukas (1230 - 1271). In the temple rest two of the sons that Michael II had with his wife Theodora (1210 - 1280), who became a saint. Agia Theodora is the patron saint of Arta. It is said that Despot Michael II rebuilt the temple as a sign of repentance for his lewd life, which alienated him from his modest and faithful wife Theodora for a long time. The Despotate of Epirus was founded by Michael I Doukas in 1204, after the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders. The Despotate collapsed in 1449, when Arta was occupied by the Ottomans. In a way, the church symbolizes the period of the Despotate, in which most of the surviving Byzantine monuments of Arta were built.
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John Karkasis on Google

Πανέμορφη εκκλησία με μεγάλη ιστορία.... Πρέπει να την επισκεφτείτε οπωσδήποτε....
Beautiful church with a long history .... You must definitely visit it ....
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A. Bafatakis on Google

Restored in 2017
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Thanos LEVENTAKIS on Google

Excellent historical place
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Beri Alla on Google

Amazing monastery
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Σπύρος Καραντζάς on Google

An after Byzantine period church with great wall grafics and the Graves of the princess-sons of Saint Theodora!!!
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BILL ROUSKAS on Google

The Virgin of Vlacherna is an imposing Byzantine church of the 10th-13th century, with later interventions, in the village of Vlacherna outside Arta. Originally built as a monastery catholic in the type of a three-aisled basilica and decorated with frescoes, sculptures, marble and mosaics, the Virgin of Vlacherna functioned as a burial temple of the family of Komnenos-Doukades, rulers of the Despotate of Epis. The original, mid-Byzantine church of the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th c. had the form of a three-aisled wooden-roofed basilica with a three-part sanctuary and a semicircular arch that protruded from the east wall. From that architectural phase are preserved various architectural members built into the later masonry as well as the central arch of the sanctuary and part of an adjacent wall that were integrated in the deaconry of the southeast corner of the later temple. The difference in the masonry, the shape and the height of the arches of the two phases is obvious on the east side of the temple. The church that survives today is late Byzantine (see floor plan). It was rebuilt in the early 13th c. in the type of the three-aisled vaulted basilica. In the middle of the same century, a dome was added to it in each aisle and an oven in the northern aisle, creating a peculiar three-aisled vaulted basilica with three domes. At the end of the 13th century, as indicated by the dating of his frescoes, a narthex was added and possibly other outbuildings and chapels, which are not preserved today.

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