Petrovouni is a small village on the escarpment above
Kardamyli on the
Mani Peninsula
The Mani Peninsula ( el, Μάνη, Mánē), also long known by its medieval name Maina or Maïna (Μαΐνη), is a geographical and cultural region in Southern Greece that is home to the Maniots (Mανιάτες, ''Maniátes'' in Greek), who cla ...
in
Messenia on the southern
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic regions of Greece, geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmu ...
peninsula of
Greece. It is the home to the Karaveli Monastery and the Faneromeni Monastery of Mani.
Faneromeni Monastery
Most of the monastery buildings are in ruins or have been scavenged for building stone, but the main church, the
katholikon
A ''katholikon'' or catholicon ( gr, καθολικόν) or ''sobor'' ( Slavonic: съборъ) refers to one of three things in the Eastern Orthodox Church:
* The cathedral of a diocese.
* The major church building (temple) of a monastery corre ...
, is still whole and is used on occasion. The church is set back from the road and is in a locked compound. The murals inside date from the 1780s.
External links
Chapman, John (2007) "Gournitsa and Petrovouni" ''Mani: a guide and history''accessed 29 December 2007
Populated places in Messenia
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