Holy Church of Saints Theodores
Byzantine church of stone and brick from the eleventh century, standing over a Roman mosaic floor.
This guide to the Holy Church of Saints Theodores in Athens starts with the square around it, Klafthmonos, named for the government clerks who gathered here for decades in the eighteen seventies to publicly mourn losing their jobs whenever a new administration took power. You'll hear about the writer Dimitrios Kambouroglou, who gave the square its name in an 1878 newspaper column, and then the guide turns to the small stone church itself, its banded stone-and-brick walls dated by an old inscription to the mid-eleventh century under a Byzantine court official named Nikolaos Kalomalos. Restoration work in the 1960s turned up something unexpected beneath the floor.
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