This the monastry at Samos. It is very large and must have had hundreds of people in the community, but now there are a handful of monks who take tourists on tours for 3 Euros (5 dollars) of the cloisters. The cloisters have large frescoes depicting Christian stories and heroes. There are the standard stern figures holding a book of power, angels scanterly clad, and a handful of demure nuns in the background. Oh, some demons who look as tho they are having all the fun
The tour was totally in Spanish and looked to be informative and interesting - but not for us!
It seems strange that this is the way things end up - the church empire having collapsed, and now only a curiosity for tourists
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