The World’s Sacred Places

Sacred Places

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Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa

Amorgos, Naxos, South Aegean, Greece Christianity

The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa is built into a sheer cliff on Amorgos, roughly 300 metres above the Aegean Sea.

Virgin Mary

Sanctuary of Delian Apollo (Portara), Naxos

Palatia Islet, Naxos Chora, Naxos, South Aegean, Greece Ancient Greek Religion

The Sanctuary of Delian Apollo at Palatia, immediately beside Naxos Chora, is best known today for the Portara, the enormous marble doorway…

Apollo