Latziana.
Vathi.
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346. Latziana, Aghia Varvara (Λατζιανά, Αγία Βαρβάρα)
346.
Latziana.
In the village of Voulgaro survives the ruined monastery catholi-
con of Aghia Varvara, a cross-in-square church with dome and
subsequent narthex. The surfaces are shaped into blind ar-
cades. The Late Gothic doorframe on the SW arcade of the
church is a result of Venetian intervention. The wall-painting
decoration, preserved in fragments in situ or extracted, dates
from the second half of the 11th c.
347.
Vathi.
Within Vathi (formerly known as Kouneni) is the barrel-vaulted,
single-nave church of Saint George with paintings of 1284, ex-
amples of folk art with references to the tradition of the 12th c.
In the same village there is also the barrel-vaulted, single-nave
church of Archangel Michael with decoration dated to the first
decades of the 14th c., attributable to Ioannis Pagomenos and
his associates.
