Catedral st Joan Babtista
Baroque cathedral of peach, lilac, and cream, seat of a Catholic community dating to Venetian rule.
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This guide to the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Santorini's Fira begins with its peach, lilac and cream walls, a deliberate break from the whitewash-and-blue code of nearly every other church on the island. It follows the Catholic minority that arrived with Venetian rule more than seven centuries ago and never left, through the cathedral's completion in 1823 and its near-total collapse in the 1956 earthquake that struck every faith on the island alike. Rebuilding stretched on for years before the peach walls rose again on the same Venetian-era foundations.
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