Vrontochi Monastery | Mystras

Keeping to the same route, the Monastery of Vrontochi emerges, imposing and massive, among the cobbled streets and the surrounding nature, which seems to a point to have regained its rightful place within the town. Pachomios, the ambitious superior who founded the monastery, managed to amass great wealth by advising and providing all kinds of political and other services to the Despots of Mystras, therefore the most prosperous institution of the castle town only took twenty years to complete. The structure incorporates two churches, famous among the circles of orthodox Christianity: the church of Agii Theodori and the church of Panagia Odigitria, commonly known as the "Afentiko".