The 18th-century Monastery of Zoodohos Pigi, or means life-giving spring, is located about four kilometers from Poros Town on a pine-covered slope and is a unique example of island monastery architecture. Its name derives from the island’s only spring, which is lauded in local tradition for its healing properties.
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The 18th-century Monastery of Zoodohos Pigi, or means life-giving spring, is located about four kilometers from Poros Town on a pine-covered slope and is a unique example of island monastery architecture. Its name derives from the island’s only spring, which is lauded in local tradition for its healing properties.
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The Poros Folkloric Museum was lovingly created by the members of the Poros Women’s Cultural Association ‘Poriotissa’ founded in 2003 and is included in the association’s founding charter.
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The Temple of Poseidon has been dated to around 520 B.C. The peripteral structure was built in the Doric style, with six columns on its narrow sides and twelve on its long sides. It was one of three large sanctuaries dedicated to the sea-god Poseidon in the Saronic area and formed a triangle with the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina and the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio.
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The permanent exhibition “Shells and the Sea” is housed in the ground-floor gallery of the Hatzopouleios Municipal Library.
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The Poros Archaeological Museum is located on Koryzi Square. It was founded by Christos Fourniadis, an archaeology buff who made it his mission to rescue and preserve Trizinias’s antiquities.
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The Municipal Theater of Pefki is on Eleftherios Venizelos street 17, it was founded in 1999 and inaugurated in September 2002. It is a space 453 seats combining aesthetics with modern technology and creates the appropriate conditions for the high demands of its multiple uses. It has presented many cultural activities like concerts, literature nights, group exhibitions, screenings of the Club Film and theatrical performances of amateur and professional teams. It also includes underground parking area of 947m2.
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The Monastery of Agia Irini in Lykovrissi Athens, was built in 1930 after her wish and there is her miraculous icon. Agia is responsible for many miracles mainly about fertility problems, shown by the children bearing her name “Xrysovalantis” and the celebration is on 28 July. It began as a Nunnery and operates with the old calendar. The last decades functions as a monastery of high Byzantine architecture.
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Free entranceThe Municipal Library of Pefki on Afroditi street 4 waw constructed in 2006 in the area of the former factory of fabrics. The chimney of the old building was characterized as preserved. The library has a special place for the children and teenage department, a modern cataloging system, a computer center and seminar room.
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The Cultural Center Melina Mercouri is in the model Solar Village and is its cultural core. In this space are conducted many cultural activities as well as dancing classes for adults and children.