Historic Centre of Patmos
Also known as The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse
1088
Byzantine
landscape
Patmos carries an unusual UNESCO inscription: not a single monument but a whole Aegean island ensemble built around a fortified Byzantine monastery. Hosios Christodoulos Latrinos founded the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in 1088…
Timeline
- 1170-1199
Late 12th-century fresco phases survive in the Chapel of the Virgin and the refectory, belonging to the Byzantine decorative campaign of the monastery's first century.
- 1200-1699
Chora grew around the fortified monastery as one of the older Aegean hill settlements, absorbing refugees from Constantinople and Crete into successive quarters of religious and secular buildings.
- 1698
Tzafara arcade. The Tzafara, a two-storeyed dressed-stone arcade, closed the south side of the monastery's main courtyard.
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