Mantamados Lesbos: The Taxiarchis Monastery, Pottery and Dairy Village
Mantamados is a traditional village in the north-east of Lesbos. Famous across Greece for the great Monastery of Taxiarchis and its miraculous relief icon of the Archangel Michael, one of the most revered pilgrimage sites in the Aegean. Set in a valley of olive groves and pine forest around thirty-six kilometres from the capital Mytilene. … Read more