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Pilgrimage in Lesvos
Panagia of Agiasos, one of the most important pilgrimages in Greece. The image of Mary holding Christ was created by St. Luke with mastic and wax and moved from Jerusalem to Agiasos by Agathon monk of Ephesus in 803 AD. Numerous pilgrims swarm on 15th August to worship the miraculous icon.
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Dafnoula
Set between two raging streams, Kelado and Nalifo, choked with bulrushes, pine trees and sweet bays, the township of Dafnoulas (little sweet bay) took root just like its namesake and stayed put since the time of the Orlov uprising in 1770. It was a region inhabited centuries before as Roman baths i...

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