With more than 3000 years of history, not all of Greek history can be bright. Yet the monuments of the darkest days are the ones that should never be forgotten. Αyia Kioura stands as one of those monuments, a testament towards the fight against non-democratic regimes. This little chapel was painted by profound Greek exiles during the time of the military dictatorship in Greece, under the instructions of Manolis Glezos, the man who as an adolescent, took down the German occupation flag from the Acropolis. The iconography doesn’t follow the typical orthodox style but rather draws inspiration from the pain of the exile, making the place so unique that was characterized as a modern art monument by the Greek Art Ministry.
