the island, has been buried in the monastery and is said to have healing powers and to be miraculous.
The main church located on front of the monastery is a newly built huge bronze and white church, one of the largest places of Orthodox worship in the Balkans, constructed in honour of Saint Nektarios.
The church was built on the site of an older Byzantine church. The rest of the monastery consists in Nektarios personal residence and books.
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Located in the port of the capital
of Aegina, the little church of Agios Nikolaos is a lovely whitewashed church, with a white dome, proudly standing at the tip of the port.
Its extremely simple architecture, with spare, linear lines is typically Cycladic and picturesque.
In its tiny interior, the church houses beautiful golden icons and various valuable items as well as fine wall paintings.
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saw a vision-dream telling him that he had to dig instead of building.
The following day he did as told and discovered the little church and the beautiful icon.To arrange a visit of the church, visitors have to contact the tourist office in the capital.
Omorfi Ekklisia literally means Beautiful Church, since the specific little church, located at a 10 minutes’ walk east of the port, is a little jewel dating from the 13th century and has superb frescoes really worth-seeing.
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