The Museum of Byzantine Culture holds the richest record of Byzantine art in northern Greece, gathered inside an award-winning brick building near the seafront of Thessaloniki. Its eleven permanent galleries trace the empire from the early Christian centuries to the years after the Ottoman conquest, through icons, mosaics, coins, and the painted tombs of the … Read more
The Meteora frescoes rank among the finest post-Byzantine wall paintings in Greece. The katholika, the main churches of the monasteries perched on their sandstone pillars, hold dense narrative cycles painted mostly in the sixteenth century. Gold and dark grounds, elongated expressive figures and richly organised feast scenes define the Cretan School style that shaped this … Read more
The Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens holds over 30,000 icons, sculptures, textiles and manuscripts spanning the 3rd to 20th centuries, one of the world’s great collections of Byzantine art. See it with the city’s headline sights using skip-the-line tickets and tours from My Greece Tours for a richer cultural day. This major museum is … Read more