The Capella Kazatza church is located at Kastro’s highest point, next to the School of Commerce on Naxos. The local tradition considered Capella Kazantza to be the  chapel of Marco Sanudo –the Venetia ...

Photodotis is Naxos’s oldest and perhaps most important fortified monastery. Located at an idyllic spot at an altitude of 500m, north of the village of Danakos and amidst age-old oak trees, fig trees ...

The Orthodox Cathedral on Naxos was built in place of a smaller church, Zoodochos Pigi, and acquired its present-day shape between 1780 and 1787. Building materials from older churches and ancient con ...

The monastery of Agia is built on an idyllic site at an altitude of 220m, just 6km away from the village of Apollonas on Naxos. The main church of the monastery is a vaulted basilica with three aisles ...

The Agios Eleftherios Μonastery stands graciously on the southern side of Sagrivillage on Naxos. Maintained in good condition following a third round of restoration work, the monastery is comprised of ...

The fascinating cave of the Nativity and the remains of the early Byzantine monastery of Kaloritsa are found above Timios Stavros monastery, on the slope of Mt. Prophitis Ilias on Naxos. The natural c ...

The Capuchin monastery on Naxos is located east of Theoskepasti church, close to the Piso Paraporti gate of Kastro. The monastery’s church, dedicated to San Antonio di Padua, is single-aisled with imp ...

The impressive, Greek Orthodox fortified monastery of Ypsilotera (or Ypsili), near Galini on Naxos, served as a center of rebellion by the locals against the repression of the Latin nobility in a numb ...

The fortified monastery of Timios Stavros (also known as Bazeos Tower by the name of the family who now own it) in the Agiassos valley, outside the village of Sagri, is one of Naxos’s most characteris ...

The monastery of Faneromeni is built in the form of a Venetian tower and it is situated on a hill overlooking the whole northwest coast of Naxos. Its foundation dates back to the 14th century. The mon ...