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DESCRIPTION
• Platytera Monastery (1714)
A significant monastic complex associated with many famous families (Capodistrias). The main courtyard of
the monastery is marked on one side by the catholicon, or main church, and on the other three by monks’
cells laid out on the ground and first floor. On the ground floor there is also a three-sided arcade with a
central spring.
• Anastaseos Kimitiriou Church (1840)
Based on the designs of the Corfiot architect, Ioannis Chronis, the façade of the church has a clear classical
character with a central portico in the Tuscan style with a triangular pediment while inside there is a
classical style iconostasis (in the form of a four-columned Ionic temple) decorated with icons from other
churches in the town. Among these are important works from the 16 th , 17 th and 18 th centuries.
• The Psychiatric clinic
• The Old People’s Home building
e. Green areas
Between the area surrounding the Property and the remaining modern town, there are three important green
areas (the Girokomio Hill, Philakon Hill, Agion Theodoron Hill), which constitute a kind of physical barrier to the
hinterland.
The aforementioned elements with regard to the area surrounding the Property are shown on map 6 of the Annex.
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