RECOMMENDED ROUTES - SIGHTS
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We also recommend you to follow the route, which leads to
Platis
Gialos. On
 the
road from Apollonia to Platis Gialos you shall find Moni Vryssianis
where the
Museum of Ecclesiastic Art
is lodged, among the exhibited articles of which, you shall find old
publications’ issues, one Gospel that dates from 1796, reliquaries,
cherubims, sacred ware, vestments, icons etc. After your visit to
Moni Vryssianis you can also visit the monastery of
Panagia tou
Vounou (Virgin Mary of the Mountain). The panoramic view from
the monastery’s courtyard over the beach of
Platis
Gialos is magic. Then finish your walk with a visit to the
Monastery
of Panagia of Crissopigi. The sight of the small foreland
with the monastery of Chrissopigi (1650), the protector of the
island,
dominating proudly on the lacerate rock, takes your breath away. The
sacred rock with the snowy-white building,
the almost absent vegetation, the vastity of the Aegean Sea and the
peaceful magnificence of the space, compose a lovely environment, a
real optical pleasure for the one who faces it!
 Taking
a walk in the beautiful picturesque village of fishermen,
Faros
you can visit the Monastery of Stavros, on the
beach of Fassolou,
from where the view over to Chrissopigi and to the facing islands is
magic. At the west side of the gulf of
Faros, taking the most
famous path of the island from the beach of Vlicho or Glipho to
Chrissopigi, you sh all pass by
ruins that date from the
last century, of ore shipping installations,
for the ore’s transfer to Lavrio and its processing there and
exactly above them, at the top of the hill there is the country
church of Ag. Ioannis, where from, the view to the rock of
Chrissopigi, to the beach of Apokofto and to the three beaches of
Faros is panoramic! If you continue walking o the path which leads
to Chrissopigi, one short stop in Agios Charalambos shall give you
the opportunity to feel that you are standing on the balcony of the
Aegean Sea! |
