Catholic Monastery of Dominican Sisters
Baroque convent church behind a yellow facade, home to a small cloistered community since the sixteenth century.
This guide to the Catholic Monastery of Dominican Sisters in Santorini opens with a puzzle: ask three sources how many cloistered nuns live behind its yellow wall and you get three different numbers. It traces the convent from its founding in 1596 on the pirate-threatened headland of Skaros through the 1956 earthquake that emptied the island of every other Catholic order, leaving only the Dominicans, and to 1981, when just three sisters remained here. Women crossed from a convent in Olmedo, Spain, and later arrived from Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Angola, Korea, Argentina, Greece, and Spain, all singing the same office in Latin, Spanish, and Greek.
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