Spilias monastery - Spilias monastery

One of the most remarkable religious monuments of Thessaly - apart from Meteora - that one must visit in order to obtain a complete picture of our post-Byzantine national legacy.

Lovely monastery isolated, quiet and very hospitable. Father Nektarios does a great job and has greatly improved the monastery in terms of the temple and its surroundings. Clean attention to everything! The cells provide comfortable bedding for the winter and of course always a hot coffee in the mansion .... I visited it from a very young age when there was no monk there and they only worked it for the Virgin Mary.

The Monastery of Panagia Spilias was traditionally built by two monks of the nearby Kosti Monastery. They had embarked on pilgrimage journeys to Jerusalem, and as they caught up in the night, they decided to spend the night in the ravines. But an enchanting light that was here did not let them sleep and after climbing the steep slope of the mountain they found a picture of Our Lady in a slit and considered it a sign that after coming here the light would grace Her to build here . The Monastery played a very important role in the Revolution of 1821 as it was the base of many Armatolans such as Karaiskakis, Katsantonis Hassiotis, Lepeniotis and others ... today it has been renovated and has a Pope to serve it.

Holy Monastery of Spilia ... Holy place with the miraculous icon of Virgin Mary. In the Monastery, the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary of Spylotissa is kept, according to tradition, the work of Evangelist Loukas with a lot of miracles. The Monastery is built in the height of a rock and at an altitude of 1000 meters. The founders of the Monastery are two brothers Athanasios and Parthenios, who originated from the village of Stefania. The foundation of the foundation of the Monastery was the founding of a miraculous way of the icon of the Virgin Mary of Spyliotissa (Spiliotissa). In the site of Monías we meet two Churches: the younger and older are devoted to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and were built in 1064. Larger than that of the Monastery, it is commemorated in the memory of Zoodohos Pigia. It is a triple basilica with a dome and was built in 1736. The iconostasis of the temple was painted in 1779 by brothers and sisters Georgios and Ioannis. In the Despotic painting of Christ the Great Archangel, there is the inscription: "Minimal Theodoros Kalithographos from the Great Damascus of Bucharest

A beautiful place worth going to the monastery a little difficult road.

Where your soul rests. A monastery with a long history, the difficult thing is that the road has been closed due to a landslide and needs attention.