Byzantine & Christian Museum
Neoclassical villa museum of icons, frescoes and textiles tracing fifteen centuries of Byzantine art.
This guide to the Byzantine & Christian Museum in Athens is built around Sophie de Marbois, the Duchess of Plaisance, whose grief after her only daughter's death led neighbors to swear they heard her holding conversations behind a locked door. It follows her decision to keep the girl's embalmed body close rather than bury it, and the hilltop tomb she commissioned at Rododaphni that burned down in 1847 before she began a grand riverside residence in the 1840s with architect Stamatios Kleanthis. Listen for the pack of enormous Pyrenean mountain dogs she kept, and the rumors that swirled around her gate.
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