Qualla: Panagia Tourliani https://qualla.com/panagia-tourliani-mykonos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/panagia-tourliani-mykonos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Panagia Tourliani https://qualla.com/panagia-tourliani-mykonos Panagia Tourliani: Introduction https://qualla.com/panagia-tourliani-mykonos/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0. Most visitors to Mykonos never leave the coast, never climb away from the beaches and the bars into the island's quiet interior. Seven kilometres inland from the white maze of Chora, in the village of Ano Mera, a tall marble spire rises above a courtyard most tourists miss entirely. This is Panagia Tourliani, the patron monastery of the whole island, the spiritual centre of a place better known for its nightlife. Behind its plain whitewashed walls waits an interior so ornate it seems to belong to another country altogether.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/panagia-tourliani-mykonos-wp/swdj-panagia-tourliani-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Panagia Tourliani: Refuge and a Miraculous Icon https://qualla.com/panagia-tourliani-mykonos/ Photo credit Hoffmann12, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two stories explain how the monastery came to be. By one tradition, it was founded by fugitive monks from Paros who sought asylum on Mykonos and took refuge in a small church high on the island, where a nun named Tourli served, giving the place her name. By another, the name come...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/panagia-tourliani-mykonos-wp/swdj-panagia-tourliani-refuge-and-a-miraculous-icon.mp3 0:06 2 full Panagia Tourliani: Florentine Gold in a Cycladic Village https://qualla.com/panagia-tourliani-mykonos/ Photo credit Hoffmann12, CC BY-SA 4.0. Between 1757 and 1767 the hieromonk Ignatios Basoula renovated the monastery into the form it keeps today. Its church is a three-aisled, cruciform Byzantine structure, domed, topped by a soaring marble spire that announces it from across the valley. But the true astonishment is i...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/panagia-tourliani-mykonos-wp/swdj-panagia-tourliani-florentine-gold-in-a-cycladic-village.mp3 0:06 3 full Panagia Tourliani: The Island's Feast https://qualla.com/panagia-tourliani-mykonos/ Photo credit Acediscovery, CC BY 4.0. The monastery is woven into the rhythm of the island's year. On the 15th of August the village fills for a great festival, and on the 23rd, the Apodosis of the Dormition, comes the main feast of the monastery itself. Every first Sunday of Lent, the icon of Panagia Tourliani is ca...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/panagia-tourliani-mykonos-wp/swdj-panagia-tourliani-the-islands-feast.mp3 0:06 4 full Panagia Tourliani: More Than a Church https://qualla.com/panagia-tourliani-mykonos/ Photo credit Acediscovery, CC BY 4.0. Panagia Tourliani has always done more than worship. A small museum operates within its walls, displaying icons, gold-embroidered epitaphs, and the monastery's first bells. At the start of the 20th century the monastery turned its buildings to mercy, serving first as a nursing ho...

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