Monastery of Varlaam | Meteora

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Monastery of Varlaam | Meteora

The monastery of Varlaam owes its name to the first emigrant Varlaam, but its history begins in 1518, when the brothers Nektarios and Theophanis the Apsarades from Ioannina settled in the monastery and renovated it from the ground up. The current katholikon of the monastery was built in 1541 and was painted in three phases by important hagiographers, Frangos Katelanos (1548), brothers Georgios and Frangos Kontaris (1566) and in 1780-82. The old refectory of the monastery has been transformed today into a museum of the rare relics of the monastery.

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