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Museum of Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Art

Kythira


This one-room gallery, in a tiny chapel alongside the Church of the Analipsi, displays icons, mosaics and frescoes rescued from ruined churches all over the island. Many amount to little more than fragments.


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