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Sights in Agios Achilleios

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Basilica of Saint Achilleios

This substantial late-tenth-century basilica was built under Tsar Samuel and associated with relics of Saint Achilleios brought from Larissa.

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Church of the Twelve Apostles

South of the modern village, the remains of a small domed basilica preserve evidence spanning Hellenistic, Roman, early Christian and Byzantine use.

Small stone church of Panagia Porphyra among grassland on Agios Achilleios island

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Panagia Porphyra Monastery

Panagia Porphyra is an early-sixteenth-century monastic church in southern Agios Achilleios, preserving later wall paintings and a local November observance.