AGIOS GEORGIOS MANDILAS CAVE

An astonishing multicolored spot appears in a cavity in the north wall of the great rock column of Agion Pnevma. This is the former monastery known as "St. George of the Handkerchiefs" (Αγίου Γεωργίου του Μανδηλά) founded in the ^14th century. Since the ^17th century, on April 23, climbers from Kastraki and all over the country have used a rope to climb 40 meters to install tamata, ex-votos in the form of cloth in memory of resistance to the Ottomans.