Saint Nikolaos Holy Convent
Orthodox convent founded inside a vanished cliffside fortress, later rebuilt with icon and folklore museums.
This guide to Saint Nikolaos Holy Convent in Santorini opens in December 1651, when the daughters of the noble Gyzi family stepped out of their tower inside the Venetian fortress on the rock of Skaros and turned their private chapel into a convent. It follows more than a century of life wedged inside that walled hilltop town, until 1815, when the archbishop of Santorini finally let the nuns leave for calmer ground between Imerovigli and Firostefani. The new convent, finished around 1820, was dedicated to three protectors at once: Saint Nicholas, Saint Panteleimon, and Our Lady of the Life Giving Spring.
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