Vlacherna Monastery (Arta)
Artaion Municipality, Greece
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
The Panagia Vlacherna, also known as Vlacherna Monastery, is a Byzantine church in the village of Vlacherna, outside Arta in the Artaion Municipality of Greece. Built as a monastery catholicon in the form of a three-aisled basilica, it was decorated with frescoes, sculptures, marble inlays and mosaics. It served as a burial church for the Comnenos-Doukas family, rulers of the Despotate of Epirus.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- church building, monastery
- Heritage
- archaeological site in Greece, protected building in Greece
- Place
- Artaion Municipality, Greece
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