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PISSIA (Village) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
The picturesque chapel of St Athanasius is close to the village of
Pisia (1.5 km. from Loutraki)
and is reached along a forestry road to Platanos. It was built in the fifteenth
century and has wall paintings of 1638, the work of the priest-monk Seraphim Koulouris
from Thebes. Among the subjects
are Christ Pantocrator, the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, St Mandelius,
Sts Peter and Paul, and the Day of Judgment.
The chapel of St, George is located in a natural cave near Schinos,
9 km. from Pisia. In Byzantine times, it seems very likely that the cave was used
as a hermitage. Today, traces of a painting of St George on horseback have survived
on the screen, and seem to date from around 1400.
This is the “cathedral church” of Pisia: a three-aisled
cruciform basilica with a dome. It stands on the site of an ilate eighteenth-century
church, which was flattened by the earthquake of 1981.
SCHINOS (Settlement) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
As we head down towards the sea at Schinos, we
come to the church of the Transfiguration, which over the course of the centuries
has undergone frequent alterations and additions. In earlier times, it was a groin-vaulted
building, but today it is a single-aisled structure with a vaulted roof. The ornamentation
of the window in the semicircular sanctuary apse takes the form of a dog-toothed
band of ceramics, which means that the earliest building phase can be dated back
to the twelfth or thirteenth century. To the east are the foundations of a semicircular
apse, which presumably belonged to an earlier and much larger church.
Two kilometers to the east of Schinos on the road to Alepochori
is the single-aisled church of St Blaise. The original structure dates from 1969,
and much care was put into its later reconstruction.
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