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Castlemonastery (80)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3684 W: 65 N: 9723]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (33908) | About 10 km from the Hora of Serifos, lies the most important religious monument of the island, the "Kastromonastiro" (Castlemonastery) of Taxiarxes.
Indeed, it looks like a small castle (check WS 1 for an external view), with very small windows, and only one tiny entrance, which you can cross only bended.
It was built around the 15th century. It looks like a small, fortified village, and it has more than 60 cells. Foreign excersionists of the past centuries, report that there were living around 100 monks in the monastery. It was one of the most important of the whole Aegean Sea.
Nevertheless, on the last decades of the 20th century, it was gradually abandoned. 5 monks were left in 1940, 3 in 1951, 12 in 1961, 2 in 1971, 1 in 1991 and 1 (the abbot) in 2001.
There is an inscription writing the year 1447, on the church of the monastery, but it probably comes fron an older church.
*** In WS 2 the coloured version*** |
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