Village · Byzantine monument
Plisioi and Agios Dimitrios Katsouris
The village with the oldest monument of Byzantine Arta, Agios Dimitrios Katsouris, of the late 9th or early 10th century.
- Location
- About 4 km from Arta, altitude 20 m
- Residents
- 330 (2021)
- Church
- Agios Dimitrios Katsouris, late 9th–early 10th century
- Frescoes
- The oldest Byzantine ones in the area
Plisioi is a village of the plain, about 4 km from Arta, beside the road to Koronisia. In the 19th century it was an estate of Ali Pasha.
Agios Dimitrios Katsouris
The church is believed to have been built in the late 9th or early 10th century and is the oldest monument of Byzantine Arta. It was the katholikon of a monastery mentioned in 13th-century sources. It is a cross-in-square church with a dome and three apses and has the oldest Byzantine frescoes in the area.
Saint Spyridon
According to tradition, in 1453 the relic of Saint Spyridon was moved from here to Corfu, where he became the island's patron.