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Museum of Byzantine Art Naoussa

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This fascinating museum is enclosed in the renovated cells of St. Athanasios, which during the Turkish occupation was a catholic school. Woodcut devotional vessels, sculptures from the Roman and Venetian period, icons of Parian and Cretan hagiographers from the 12th and 13th centuries, 'The Prayer' from the 15th century, 'The Deposition from the Cross' and 'Virgin Mary holding Christ' both from the 16th century, as well as the only part of a fresco that is preserved in a Byzantine church in Protoria, Naousa from the 12th century are all exhibited in this museum.

 

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