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Panagia Ekatontapiliani, Parikia

Greece South Aegean Páros

Panagia Ekatontapiliani, Parikia
Photo: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The 'Church of a Hundred Doors', one of the oldest and best-preserved Byzantine churches in Greece, founded in the 4th century, reputedly by St Helena, mother of Constantine. Legend says only 99 of its doors have been found. The complex includes a beautiful baptistery with a cross-shaped font and a small Byzantine museum.


It's in Parikia, the main port town of Paros, a few minutes' walk from the ferry quay. Parikia's old town has winding white lanes, a Venetian castle (the Kastro) built from ancient temple stones, and good sunset bars on the waterfront. Dress modestly.

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