Church of the Hodegetria, Mystras, Peloponnese, Greece

Church of the Hodegetria, originally part of the Brontochion monastery, built 1308-22, in Mystras, a ruined fortified town, capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, 14th - 15th century, on Mount Taygetus near ancient Sparta, in Peloponnese, Laconia, Greece. The Byzantine town full of churches decorated with frescoes was also settled by the Ottomans but was abandoned in the 1830s and is now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Church of the Hodegetria, originally part of the Brontochion monastery, built 1308-22, in Mystras, a ruined fortified town, capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, 14th - 15th century, on Mount Taygetus near ancient Sparta, in Peloponnese, Laconia, Greece. The Byzantine town full of churches decorated with frescoes was also settled by the Ottomans but was abandoned in the 1830s and is now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen