Meteora
Meteora, Greece
Meteora is not one ticket but six. Each working monastery on the rock pillars charges its own small entrance fee at the…
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Greece’s most visited religious site is Meteora, where monasteries stand on top of sandstone pillars in Thessaly and each keeps its own opening days. Crete adds the historic Arkadi Monastery and remote Preveli and Odigitria, Athens has the Byzantine mosaics of Daphni and the Kaisariani Monastery on Mount Hymettus, and the islands have their whitewashed churches, from Mykonos to Naxos and Patmos.
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Arkadi Monastery
Rethymno, Greece
Entry is by a cheap ticket bought at the gate, and it covers the whole complex, including the small museum and the…
31 tickets & tours
Saint Gerasimos Monastery
Argostoli, Greece
The Monastery of Agios Gerasimos lies in the Omala Valley in the centre of Kefalonia, about fifteen kilometres from…
3 tickets & tours
Toplou Monastery
Sitia, Greece
Toplou Monastery stands in a remote landscape in the north-east of Crete, about fifteen kilometres east of the town of…
2 tickets & tours
Daphni Monastery
Athens, Greece
Entry is free, which is unusual for a Greek UNESCO site, and there is no ticket office;
1 ticket or tour
Kaisariani Monastery
Athens, Greece
The Monastery of Kaisariani stands in a pine forest on the slopes of Mount Hymettus, about five kilometres east of…
1 ticket or tour
Odigitria
Crete, Greece
The Monastery of Odigitria stands in the Asterousia Mountains in south-central Crete, about seventy kilometres south of…
1 ticket or tour
Panagia Tourliani Monastery
Mykonos, Greece
Entry is free with a donation box inside, and a small museum of vestments and icons occupies a room off the courtyard.
1 ticket or tour
Panormitis Monastery
Symi, Greece
Entry to the monastery is free; two small museums inside, one of folk objects and one of ecclesiastical treasure,…
1 ticket or tour
Preveli
Crete, Greece
The Monastery of Preveli stands on a cliff above the Libyan Sea on the south coast of Crete, about forty kilometres…
1 ticket or tour
Agios Minas Cathedral
Heraklion, Greece
Entry is free with a donation box, and there is no ticket for any part of the building.
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Agios Sozon Chapel
Naxos, Greece
There is nothing to buy and nothing to book. Agios Sozon is one of the hundreds of small whitewashed chapels scattered…
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Cathedral of Apostle Paul, Corinth
Corinth, Greece
The Cathedral of the Apostle Paul stands in the centre of modern Corinth, on the Peloponnese coast about an hour west…
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Cathedral of St Dionysius, Athens
Athens, Greece
The Catholic cathedral of Athens stands on Panepistimiou avenue, a wide nineteenth-century street between Syntagma…
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Church of Panagia Paraportiani
Mykonos, Greece
The Church of Panagia Paraportiani stands at the edge of Mykonos Town, at the entrance to the Kastro district, near…
No online ticket
Church of the Holy Apostles, Athens
Athens, Greece
The church stands inside the Ancient Agora, the archaeological site below the Acropolis, so seeing it means buying a…
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Keras Kardiotissas Monastery
Hersonissos, Greece
The Monastery of Panagia Kera Kardiotissa stands on the road up to the Lasithi Plateau in eastern Crete, about fifty…
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Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens
Athens, Greece
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, known as the Mitropoli, stands on Mitropoleos Square between Syntagma and…
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Monastery of Great Meteoron
Meteora, Greece
The Great Meteoron is the largest and oldest of the six monasteries still inhabited at Meteora in central Greece,…
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Monastery of Paleokastritsa
Paleokastritsa, Greece
The Monastery of the Virgin Mary at Paleokastritsa stands on a green headland above the famous bays on the west coast…
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Monastery of Rousanou
Meteora, Greece
Rousanou is one of the six monasteries still active at Meteora, and it is the easiest to reach: a short path and a…
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Monastery of Saint John the Theologian
Patmos, Greece
The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian crowns the hilltop village of Chora on the island of Patmos, in the…
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Monastery of Saint Stephen
Meteora, Greece
The Monastery of Saint Stephen, Agios Stefanos, is the only monastery at Meteora that can be reached without climbing…
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Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapausas
Meteora, Greece
Saint Nicholas Anapausas is the first monastery you reach on the road from the village of Kastraki to the Meteora…
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Orthodox monasteries ask for modest dress, with long skirts for women, and close at midday or on set days. Tours from Athens and Kalambaka cover Meteora; the pages below give the details for each site.