Location information

  Single-aisled basilica with two conched chapels, the south dedicated to St. Gregory and the north to St. John Chrysostomos. The walls are lavishly decorated on the outside with patterns in brick and tile. Two glazed clay icons were preserved on the pediment of the east side; the first depicts the three Hierarchs and the second the Crucifixion. They are exhibited now in the Byzantine Museum of Ioannina. The interior is decorated with wall paintings dated to the 17th century.
  The church is located in the old quarter of the Tourkopazaro, in Arta. It was built at the end of the 14th century A.D. During the 17th century, the "Greek School" of the scholar Castorianos Manolakis was established in its precinct. The first scholars to mention the church of St. Bazil in modern times are the Russian archimandrite Antoninos in 1886 and the metropolitan bishop Serapheim in 1884.
  In 1979 the frescoes were cleaned and restored, in 1980 the roof was repaired and the masonry was consolidated. In 1991 the roof was reconstructed, and in 1994 the electrical installation was completed. Today the monument is used as a church but liturgy takes place only on the day of its patron saint.

This text is cited July 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.

Hellenic Ministry of Culture WebPage

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/212/21208n/e212hn04.htm...

Church of Agios Vasilios Ghefyras

Egnatia Epirus Foundation web page

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (1 img.)

Saint Marcos

It is a small church built in 1770.

Church of Agii Anargyri at Arta

Tel: +30 26810 27533
Fax: +30 26810 28610

GOURIANA (Village) ARTA

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (1 img.)

Agios Nikolaos Rodias

KIRKIZATES (Village) ARTA

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (1 img.)

Church Ghenesiou Theotokou

KORONISSIA (Island) ARTA
(= Birth of the Virgin Mary)

Agii Taxiarches

MIKROSPILIA (Village) ARTA
Preserved monument

Panagia tou Bryoni (= Our Lady of Bryoni)

NEOCHORAKI (Village) ARTA
The church dates to the first half of the 13th century.

Kokkini Ecclesia (Red church)

PALEOCHORI (Village) VOURGARELI
Photo Album in URL, information in Greek only.

Prefecture of Arta Web page

http://www.nomarxia-artas.gr/tourismos/mnimeia/kok... (1 img.)

http://www.vourgarelinet.gr/axioth/kokek.htm (3 img.)

St. George

PETA (Small town) ARTA

Monastery of the Virgin of Seltso

PIGES (Village) ARTA

Monastery of the Virgin of Seltso

Egnatia Epirus Foundation web page

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (5 img.)

Church of Agios Georgios

PISTIANA (Village) ARTA

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp...

Church of Agia Paraskevi

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (1 img.)

Church of Agios Dimitrios Katsouris

PLISSII (Village) ARTA
Photo Album in URL, information in Greek only.

http://www.nomarxia-artas.gr/tourismos/mnimeia/kat... (1 img.)

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (1 img.)

Monastery of the Birth of the Virgin

THEODORIANA (Village) ARTA

Kokkini Ekklisia (Red Church)

VELENTZIKO (Village) ARTA

Egnatia Epirus Foundation web page

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/HyperChu_EN.asp... (1 img.)

Monastery Rodias 'Rodon to Amaranton'

VIGLA (Village) ARTA

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (4 img.)

St. Nicolaos church

VOURGARELI (Small town) ARTA

http://www.vourgarelinet.gr/axioth/agnik.jpg (1 img.)

Country churches

Saint Gergios church

AMVRAKIKOS GULF (Gulf) EPIRUS

Monasteries

Monastery of Faneromeni

ARTA (Town) EPIRUS

http://www.epcon.gr/scripts/baseis/Hyperchu_EN.asp... (9 img.)

Monastery of St. Ekaterini

KATARRAKTIS (Village) ARTA
Tel: +30 26850 51267

Monastery of Melaton

KATO KALENTINI (Village) ARTA

Monastery of the Virgin at Melissourgi

MELISSOURGI (Small town) ARTA
Tel: +30 26540 23933

Monastery of Kato Panagia

MONI GENISSIS THEOTOKOU (Monastery) ARTA
Tel: +30 26810 27660, 24829
  The church is a three-aisled basilica with a transverse barrel-vault. The east side ends in three semi-hexagonal apses while a narthex was later added to the west. The walls are adorned on the outside with a great variety of brick and tile decoration, including an inscription inset in a brick. The interior is richly decorated with wall paintings dated to the 18th century.
  The monastery was built in the 13th century, by Michael Doukas Comnenos, the Despot of Epiros. In the period of the Turkish occupation it was renamed to "Panagia tis Vryseos" (Holy Virgin of the spring), because it was located near a spring. In the sigillium of Patriarch Jeremian II (1591) it is mentioned that the Paregoritissa Monastery became the metochion (dependence) of the Monastery of Kato Panaghia.
  The roof and the windows of the north and south sides were reconstructed in 1969. The restoration of the wall paintings began in 1994, and in 1995 the roof was replaced and the wall masonry was consolidated. The restoration work is still in progress. The monument is now used as a convent for nuns.