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Extract from the Tnos Town Travel Guides:
At
TNOS TOWN
, trafficking in devotional articles certainly dominates the streets leading up from the busy waterfront to the Neoclassical
church
(daily 8am-8pm) which towers above. Approached via a massive marble staircase, the famous
icon
inside is all but buried under a dazzling array of jewels; below is the crypt (where the icon was discovered) and a mausoleum for the sailors drowned when the Greek warship
Elli
, at anchor off Tnos during a pilgrimage, was torpedoed by an Italian submarine on August 15, 1940. Museums around the courtyard display more objects donated by the fait...
read the whole Tnos Town Travel Guides...
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