Listed 2 sub titles with search on: UNESCO - World Heritage List for wider area of: "STEREA HELLAS Region GREECE" .
DELFI (Ancient sanctuary) FOKIDA
The Pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi where the oracle of Apollo spoke, was the site of Omphalos, the "navel of the world". In harmony with its superb natural landscape and charged with sacred meaning, in the 6th century B.C. it was indeed the religious centre and symbol of the unity of the ancient Greek world.
MONI OSSIOU LOUKA (Monastery) DISTOMO
Monasteries of Daphni, Hossios Luckas, and Nea Moni of Chios
Although geographically distant from each other, these three monasteries
(the first is in Attica, near Athens, the second in Phocida near Delphi, and the
third on an island in the Aegean Sea, near Asia Minor) belong to the same typological
series and share the same aesthetic characteristics. The churches are built on
a cross-in-square plan with a large dome supported by squinches defining an octagonal
space. In the 11th and 12th centuries they were decorated with superb marble works
as well as mosaics on a gold background, all characteristic of the 'second golden
age of Byzantine art'.
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