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Monastery of Faneromeni
A wonderful place for any visitor with an interesting museum, beautiful gardens and a small zoo with some cute animals to see. It is a quiet place, very good for a moment of peace, prayers and talking to yourself. Moreover, the views from up here over the land and sea beyond are amazing. Faneromeni Monatsery is an important religious center and historic site for the island of Lefkada. It has a few Greek Orthodox monks and the church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
The history of the monastery dates centuries ago. While Saint Paul the Apostle, was travelling through Greece in 63 AD. to spread the Gospel of Christianity, he sent three of his disciples to Lefkada island. When Sosion, one of the three arrived at the island, he decided to build a small church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The church was built on the site of an ancient temple, dedicated to Artemis, goddess of hunt, forests and animals.
The monastery expanded in 1634 and grew once more in 1734 when the island was under the Venetian rule. It suffered severe damages in 1886 by a large fire, but it was reconstructed to its previous state, and continued to serve as a men's monastery until 1948. When abbot Nikephoros took over in the 1980s, he and a few more monks decided to renovate it and make it suitable for visitors. They added a library, chapel dedicated to St. Silouan the Athonite, guestrooms and a three-floor ecclesiastical museum exhibiting rare icons, relics of various saints and manuscripts. The basement of the three-floor building, houses another interesting museum, the Nautical Museum. All the buildings are well kept and maintained, and the church inside is painted and adorned very much in the Greek style and as such is very decorative.
The monastery is open to visitors between 8:00 a.m. and 14:00 p.m. and from 16:00 p.m. – 19:00 p.m. daily. If you wish to enter the church, discreet clothing is required (so shoulders covered and knees hidden) and proper behavior. There are robes at the entrance for females who are not clothed according to the prescribed requirements. The monastery is just a few easy minutes’ drive from Lefkada Town and there is a free parking lot a few meters from the western gate. If you are in route from Lefkas to the beaches on the western side of the island, it is easy to just turn into the monastery and spend an hour there. There is no entrance fee to visit either the museum or the monastery, although you can make donations.
