A unique virtual tour of the Holy Monastery of Saint Luke the Stylite in Boeotia, which is a landmark of global Christian art and is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is offered to the public by the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center of the Foundation of the Hellenic World.
Thanks to the new technologies available at “Tholos”, visitors have the opportunity to admire the monument of the highest religious, historical, and archaeological significance of Byzantine culture and to get to know Saint Luke the Stylite, the great healing Saint of the Orthodox Church and founder of the homonymous Monastery in Sterea of Boeotia.
In this journey, viewers follow two virtual characters, a monk and a tour guide, and learn about the significant milestones in the life of the Saint through the narration of his life, with simultaneous, for the first time, visualization through modern Byzantine iconography by the iconographer, Mr. Yiannoulis Lymparopoulos.
The tour starts from the Repose of the Saint in 953, around the Holy Tomb, the popular pilgrimage of Central Greece, where the unique architectural trilogy of the historic Monastery was formed. We wander through the three temples of the Monastery, the Church of the Virgin Mary, built by the Saint while he was alive, the Cathedral that housed the Holy Relic, and the Church of Saint Barbara – Crypt, where the Holy Tomb is located.
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With a brief historical, archaeological, and theological commentary, we wander among the original architectural structures of the buildings, admiring their interior decoration, the exquisite marble floors, the frescoes, the marble carvings, and the splendid mosaics of high Byzantine aesthetics. At the same time, significant historical moments associated with the Holy Monastery from its early years to the period of Turkish rule, the Revolution, and even our days are presented.
We arrive at the present, having followed the path of the Saint’s relics, which returned to the Holy Monastery in 1986 with the efforts of the current Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Mr. Hieronymos II.
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Free entrance.
