GREECE PELOPONNESE ARGOLIS AVGOU MONASTERY

Above: Besides the main building of the monastery there are ruins of other associated buildings in the surrounding area.

What a surprise: as I take photographs in 2018 some flute music is played, and when I applaud in the end a monk appears in one of the windows. We are both highly surprised: he that a foreigner found his way to Avgou Monastery and I that it is inhabited. So he invites me to come in where he lives since the beginning of 2017. As I enter some bats stare at me in one of the first rooms.

Above: The frescoes in the chapel of the monastery are blackened by a fire just a few years ago and await professional treatment. - Below left: Looking out the encircling wall of the monastery. - Below right: This is what a tire may look like after driving to Avgou Monastery.