Listed 10 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for destination: "PERACHORA Settlement LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA".
In the center of Perachora village, the Holy Church of the Assumption
can be found. The architecture style of the church-built in 1982- is a three-aisle
basilica with a tiled roof dome. South west of the church stands the imposing
Campanile surrounded by a beautifully handled with care yard. The inner walls
are nicely covered with Hagiographies and Byzantine Signs, facts that establish
the religiousness of the faithful.
Eight kilometers along the road from Loutraki
to Perachora, by the hill, which was once the acropolis of ancient Peraea,
stands the little single-aisled basilica of St Demetrius, which was built and
had its wall paintings executed in 1750. These paintings - depicting Our Lady
enthroned, the Crucifixion, Christ Pantocrator, the saints in attitudes of prayer,
etc. - are works of great art, and a visit to the church cannot fail to be spiritually
uplifting.
This historic church is in Perachora itself and dates from 1767, when
Greece was still under Turkish
rule. The twelve steps leading to its entrance and the little doors of the church
were constructed in such a way to prevent the conquerors from riding their horses
inside during the service and desecrating the holy place, as was their custom.
In 1832 after the liberation of Greece
- a political faction called the “Constitutionalists” made the church
their headquarters when they were forced to leave Argos
after a dispute with the supporters of Count Capodistrias, first Governor of Greece.
Fifteen kilometers along the road to Vouliagmeni
from Perachora is the pretty chapel of St Blaise, built in 1981. The surrounding
landscape is very attractive, and ancient potsherds are common. There is another
little church of St Blaise in Perachora, at the spot called Aremada.
After an ancient fountain 9 km. along the road from Vouliagmeni
to Asprokampos, is the church
of the Prophet Elijah, standing on a low hill. The foundations consist of ancient
building materials, of which there is no shortage in the area.
On the road to Strava,
after about 6 km., we come to a little roadside shrine. An uphill path from there
leads to a little chapel dedicated to the Seven Maccabees, a quaint structure
three-quartets of which is built into a cave. In its courtyard is a tall oak tree,
which is said to be as old as the church itself. This idyllic spot is believed
once to have been the hermitage of a monk called Maccabaeus.
Four kilometres beyond the Bethlehem Orphanage on the road from Loutraki
to Perachora is the pretty church of Our Lady “Ipapanti”. The church
is built in undressed stone and has a pitched wooden roof covered with tiles.
The little chapel of St George is located in a cave at the spot called
Trepes near Perachora. The cave is also full of stalactites, from which water
drips. It is believed locally that the water has medicinal properties, which are
attributed to the miraculous influence of St George.
St Nicholas “the Younger”, at the spot called Malagari
near Perachora, seems likely to be the oldest Byzantine monument in the area,
since it was built in the tenth or eleventh century. Experts have quite rightly
described its outstanding wall paintings as historic treasures of the greatest
value. In earlier times, the monastery had a full complement of monks, and even
today the beauty of the scenery does much to uplift the spirits of pilgrims.
Tel: +30 27440 24872
The foundations of the monastery of St Ρaul were laid in 1972 on a
site higher up the mountain, an hour’s walk from the nunnery of Hosios
Patapios. The first monk who established in this isolated place came here
from Mount Athos. Set as
it is amid the dense greenery, the monastery of St Ρaυl is truly a place apart
from the world.
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