AIA Fieldwork Photo Contest 2020

Entry 10434

Submitted by Gavin McGuire

Neapoli, Crete

Neapoli, Lasithi, Greece

Category: Monuments

14th century Franciscan Priory The recently, partly restored Franciscan monastery of Agios Antonios a kilometre from the Cretan town of Neapoli, from where the locally born monk Pietro Filargos began his religious career before being elected Pope Alexander V in 1409. The last Greek born Pope.

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