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🏛️ Attraction · Monastery
Monastery of Saint Raphael
Μονή Αγίου Ραφαήλ
🎟️ Free entry
A modern monastery on a hill above Thermi, built after excavations in the 1960s uncovered graves identified with three saints killed here in the fifteenth century. It is one of the busiest pilgrimage sites in the Aegean and the atmosphere is devotional rather than touristic. Worth knowing before you arrive in shorts; shoulders and knees covered.
Where to stay nearby
Live prices and availability on a map centred on this exact spot — hotels, studios and villas — so you can judge the distance to the beach, the port or the village from here rather than guess from an address.
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Tours, boat trips & tickets
Boat trips, guided tours of the ancient sites and tickets bookable ahead — free cancellation on most.
- The petrified forestTwenty-million-year-old trunks turned to silica, standing in bare hills — a UNESCO Global Geopark, and almost always empty.Check tickets →
- Ouzo in PlomariDistilleries that have been in the same town since the nineteenth century. Ouzo here is drunk with food — usually the salted sardine of Kalloni.See guided tours →
- A car for a weekIt is two and a half hours from the airport to Sigri in the far west. Without a car you will see one corner of a very big island.Compare cars →
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Frequently asked
Where is Monastery of Saint Raphael?
Monastery of Saint Raphael is in Thermi, Lesvos, Greece. The map on this page shows the exact spot.
Is there an entry fee at Monastery of Saint Raphael?
No — entry is free.
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