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The Post-Byzantine Refuge: Deciphering the Hidden Basilic Plan and Cryptic Geometry of Pelion’s Mountain Monasteries

The Post-Byzantine Refuge: Deciphering the Hidden Basilic Plan and Cryptic Geometry of Pelion’s Mountain Monasteries Pressed into the beech forests and schist escarpments of Thessaly’s Pelion peninsula, a constellation of monasteries and church complexes embodies one of Greece’s most tenacious acts of cultural survival. Built largely during the Tourkokratia — […]

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