However, Panagia Paraportiani is by far the most famous. Sitting in Chora's Kastro (castle) neighborhood, this whitewashed church dates to the Byzantine era and features a variety of religious ...

It was once a center of worship for Poseidon; a famous shrine to the Virgin Mary was established in Chora in 1823, and a grand Orthodox church settled over it—Panagia Megalochari—swagged in ...

The small Greek villages of the Cyclades are just waiting to be discovered ... the narrow streets of the Kastro or visit the Panagiá church and just picture yourself in the film Mamma Mia!

The holy icon of Panagia Soumela, located in the homonymous Holy Church in Vermio, northern Greece, is the symbol of Hellenism in Pontus.