Avgou Monastery is one of the most important sights in Argolis , and is located on a steep side of the Didymon Mountains, almost an hour away from Nafplio. Dedicated to St. Demetrius the Myrovlitis , the Avgou Monastery is built at an altitude of 853 meters, overlooking the gorge of the river Rados. To
Of the ten holy monasteries of the Metropolis dedicated to the Holy Virgin, the Holy Monastery of Pantanassi Kranidi is one of the newest. It is located between Portocheli and Kranidi and was founded in 1965 by the late Elder Archimandrite Pavlos Venekas . It was inaugurated on August 7, 1966. The Katholikon is in
In the location of Pikrodafni, between Kranidi and Ermioni you will find oldest surviving one apse cross-vaulted church of Argolis , dating back to the year 1245. Inside the church there is a surviving inscription, which reveals that the church was 'built from the ground up' at the expense of the family of the lord
On the hill of the mills we find the parish church of the Pammegiston Taxiarches, which was built in the 15th or 17th century. There are scattered reports, without documentation, which attribute the building of the original church to the 9th century AD on the site of the ruined church of Demeter of Chthonia. The
Northeast of the settlement of Pelei, on the public road that leads from Trachia to Didyma, the apse cross-vault chapel of Zoodochos Pigi can be seen. Due to the whitewashing of the walls, the date of its construction cannot be determined. However, the low design of the single western entrance, together with the Islamic arch
The Holy Church of St. George in Kranidi was once a parish church, nowadays it operates occasionally. It is located on the south side of the hill of Bardounia. Originally, a smaller church was built as a sign of gratitude to St. George when the Turco-Albanian Tribune Hamil Jaferi Agas invaded Kranidi in revenge, to
You will hear it called the "Gorge of the Gods" because they were from here, it is said, that the king of the underworld, Pluto, came out and snatched Persephone, and it was from here that Hercules ascended Cerberus from Hades in his twelfth and final labor. Fairies are said by local lore to live
At the eastern end of the city, there is the Bisti peninsula (in Arvanitika Bist means Tale) While Ermioni of Mycenaean and Geometric times developed in the area of the hill of Magoula, the new city of the Ermioneans, from Archaic times (7th-6th century) probably developed first in Bisti next to the famous Porphyryeum. From
It was built in 1896 with money from our national benefactor Andreas Syngros. It housed the Primary School for many years. In the 1950's the first cinema of Ermioni operated in the building under the name "MON CINE". During the last two decades of the 20th century,sections of the Middle School of Ermioni and then
The Kapodistrian School in the years of the Ottoman rule was the home of Ali Bourdouniotis. During the years of Kapodistrias, namely in 1831, it was converted into a school building with donations from the residents of Ermioni. It housed for over 100 years the primary school of our town. In recent years it has
