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Just
a few kilometers from Agia Marina there are :
The Monastery of Saint Nektarios,
for religious tourism
The Temple of Aphaia,
inside pine trees, with beautiful sea view.
The Old Palaioxora with
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THE MONASTERY OF
SAINT NEKTARIOS
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The
Monastery of Saint Nektarios was built around 1904-1910
by the bishop Pentapoleos Nektarios.
Nektarios lived in the Monastery and died in 1920.
In 1961 he was declared a Saint.
The Monastery is on the road to Saint Marina and it's about
6 kilometers away from the town of Aegina.
The church has two tall bell-towers and 4 rows of windows
which all have red archs for crowning.
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Fourteen nuns live in this Monastery.
The Monastery celebrates on 9th November and thousands
of people gather on this day from every part of Greece.
There are many rows and dedications
made from a great numberof worshippers in this Monastery.
Tel.
of the Mon.: 22970- 53806
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THE TEMPLE OF APHAIA
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The
temple of Athena Aphaia is built in the northern part of
the island in a place covered with pine trees and with
a view of the beautiful blue sea.It's in a very good condition.
Twenty-four pillars of the temple remain, out of a total
of 34.
It has been built in 480 b.c. just after the naval battle
in Salamina.
Pafsanias gives us more information about Aphaia from some
traditions in Crete.According to those, Vritomartis was born
from Zeus and Karmi and because she liked hunting very much,
Goddess Artemis was fond of her.
Minoas fell in love with Virtomartis and in order to get
away from him, she fell into the sea where she got tangled
up in some fishermen's nets and they took her with them on
their ship.
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But
on the ship, a sailor fell in love with Vritomartis so
she was forced to fall into the sea again in order to get
away from him and she managed to swim to the island.
The girl headed towards the forest
of the island and the sailors watched her from the ship
as she was vanishing with some kind of holy intervention
and that's why they named her Aphaia from the word afandos
which in greek means that someone has vanished into thin
air.
When the atmosphere is clear, you can see Poseidon's
temple in Sounio and the Acropolis of Athens.
It is said that the 3 temples
form a triangle (the holy triangle of ancient times).
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