Petraki Monastery - NIMTS Traditional Geocache
Petraki Monastery - NIMTS
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The cache is a small jar that contains a logbook. There is room for small trackables. It is located in between of the Hospital NIMTS and the Petraki Monastery in Kolonaki.
Petraki Monastery has existed for more than 1000 years. ''Katholiko'', the central church within the monastery, is built in the Byzantine style, the oldest style of church architecture in Southern Greece. The Monastery was renovated in 1673 by the Physician priest and monk, Parthenios Petrakis. From 1834- 1846 the monastery served as a military hospital. In 1922 received refugees from Asia Minor. It has also provided accommodation for theological students studying in the Divinity faculty of the University of Athens. During the Second World War the Monastery distributed food to the poor and at the same time provided free medicine to the neighbouring population The monastic community consists of 20 monks who are archimandrites, priests, deacons and novices. The neraby hospital NIMTS (Nosilevtiko Idryma Metochikou Tameiou Stratou) is an Army Hospital, founded in 1941 during the second World War in order to provide medical treatment for the soldiers. Today it has 393 beds and treats around 15000 in-patients and 80 000 out-patients anually. JUNE 2011 ATTENTION: THERE IS CONSTANTLY A MUGGLE CLOSE TO THE CACHE (ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET, SITTING ON A BENCH). HIS NAME IS IOANNIS AND HE IS USUALLY ASKING PEOPLE FOR MONNEY. - A NICE PERSON THOUGH, BUT AS IT SEAMS HE IS NOT AWARE OF THE CACHE. TRY TO KEEP HIM UNAWARE. GOOD LUCK.
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