Mesanagros
Mountain village hiding a sixth-century basilica buried beneath its thirteenth-century church.
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This guide to Mesanagros, a mountain village on Rhodes, layers three stories built to survive: a bleeding icon at a monastery five kilometers away, a village raised deliberately out of sight of pirate ships, and a sixth-century basilica said to lie beneath the thirteenth-century church at its center. You'll hear the local legend of the knife-scarred painting. Fewer than a hundred people live in the village today.
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