Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas Fragapidimatos in Pyrgos

The Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas Fragapidimatos was founded in the 14th century and is located 280m above the sea, 12km north of Pyrgos, at the homonymous hills, near Vounargos. Now the pilgrim is easily driven to the Monastery by a bypass, asphalt road, which bypasses the National Road of Pyrgos – Patras in the place of Kertizeika. In the tradition, a Franco persecuted by the Turks jumped with his horse from the rock to the void, inviting St. Nicholas, without anything, donating to it many lands.The Monastery is for females with 16 nuns. It was renovated after the earthquakes of 1993 and has a new, majestic and spacious Byzantine temple temple. The older sisters were engaged in hand-woven textiles, which were awarded at the Thessaloniki Exhibition.