Santorini Towns and Villages Pyrgos  
 

Pyrgos / Perivolos

ZANOS HOTEL

This pretty village has some beautiful houses, one recently converted into a luxury hotel (Zannos Meltathron). Overlooked by the remains of a castle on the hilltop, is adorned with several Byzantine churches, the most interesting being Theotokaki with its frescoes.

The Monastery of Profitis Elias is just three kilometres from the village, on the peak of Mount Profitis (550 meters above the sea). Monks Joachim and Gabriel started the construction of the monastery in 1771, with the help of the bishop of Fira Zacharias and the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril.

At about the 19th century the monastery was enlarged, when the King of Greece Othon, charmed by the landscape, ordered its expansion. The monastery's museum is full of ecclesiastical treasures, including icons from the 15th and 18th centuries, a 20th century iron cross, silver bound scriptures, and the diamond-adorned mitre of Patriarch Gregory 5th

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