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AGIA FOTINI BEACH (Settlement) CHIOS
Continuing on the main road, further down to the left, is a small road that leads
to Agia Fotia (Saint Fotini). According to tradition this chapel was built on
a Vato, a bushy area. The story is that for many nights, the villagers of Neochori
saw flames leaping from these bushes. When they finally ventured to this area,
they found an icon of Saint Fotini laying there. So they built the chapel on this
very spot and every year, on August 12, the day the icon was discovered, they
hold a festival in celebration. Further on we come to the shore of Agia Fotini,
a beautiful pebbled beach with clear, blue -green water. The area is charming
and abounds with traditional taverns, rented rooms and various shops for the visitor's
convenience.
This text is cited Feb 2004 from the Promoting Tourism Prefectural Committee of Chios URL below, which contains images.
MONI AGIOU MINA (Monastery) CHIOS
Tel: +30 22710 31555
The Reverend Neofitos Koumanos and his son, Reverend Minas, built
the Monastery between 1572 and 1595 under the Patriarch Jeremiah II. The Monastery
was built on the top of a hill, just outside the village of Nehori.
It was intended to be an abbey for monks, however, in 1932, it was converted into
a Monastery and is currently home to 25 nuns that occupy their time with religious
painting, crafts and sewing ecclesiastical garments. The Monastery has become
famous and is well known worldwide. It is directly linked with Chios’ recent history
and more specifically with the Massacre of Chios in 1822 when the Turks slaughtered
and burned 3,000 Chians who had flocked to the Monastery from surrounding villages
to be saved. Today, the atrocities of the Massacre are still evident in the blood
stained marble floor of the church. The Mausoleum, located in the courtyard of
the Monastery, displays the bones of many victims of the Massacre.
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