Travel Guide Monastère De Panayia Chrysorogiatissa

A special visit is required in this mountain monastery, located about 2 km from the village of Mgr Mgr. For the architecture, the serenity and the softness of the places, but also for the beauty of the site (very beautiful views right in front of the monastery and, basically, from the winery, on the vines and the hinterland of Paphos, to the sea). Finally, amateurs will appreciate the special atmosphere of this monastery where one of the best white wines on the island is produced, giving monastic activity a very pleasant and original turn. There are indeed quite few places where you will hear: " You will not be able to meet the bishop this morning, he is in the vines ". These vineyards of the Lord are just below the monastery and extend to a beautiful area.The current building dates back to the 1821 th century, and the previous buildings have suffered numerous damage, the last of which has seen the Turks ravaging construction of the th century in. Amateurs will be very interested in the cellar and the wines of the area, while the regulars of the Cypriot churches will only have eyes for the monastery, which has a beautiful iconostasis and the traditional Virgin icon of the Virgin, veiled and hidden.It was Saint Ignatius who, according to legend, was reportedly drawn to the sea by a vivid light that would have revealed the icon to him. Desiring to take him into the mountain, he would have been called once again to designate the place where he had to base his monastery. The scene took place in the mid th century, hence the date of construction of the first building. We also note a beautiful carved wood panel.There will also be many ex-voto in silver, some pieces of silver showing the part of the body, leg, hand, called for healing. Outside, on the porch, a fresco representing the dormition of the Virgin. A museum was recently created to preserve the ecclesiastical treasures of the monastery.Wine smells are well present in the cellars, and the cellar master, a true wine-making professional, gives all the necessary details on the manufacture.The production is made in white, in red (Ayios Elias), and even in rosé (Santa Marana), but the most interesting is a very unsubtyped dry white, the Saint Andronikos, using this famous xinisteri grape that is growing in altitude. You will notice the cold rooms, since the process of cooling the wine at 4 ° (it is the holding, the alternative of the collage, more frequently used in France), so as to set the salt crystals to make them disappear (the operation repeats the operation three times in order to eliminate them all).Bottling is done fairly quickly, about one week after the last screening. As among many producers, French grape varieties have good reputation, and a few appendices are used, such as carignan, to give colour, cabernet, riesling or white folle.We buy, of course, the wine from the estate at the monastery shop, but also from honey and icons.Very pleasant terrace in front of the monastery, at the foot of 14 m high pine tree.Just below the monastery, another small religious building, Ayia Moni, on the site of a temple dedicated to Hera, the wife of Zeus, in antiquity. The oldest parts of the church belong to a construction of the century.Practice: Tel (26) 722 457. Open from a. m. to p. m. and p. m. to p. m. every day from September to April. And from a. m. to p. m. and p. m. to p. m., daily from May to August.