The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos
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How it came to be
The Aegean island of Patmos is where, by tradition, John wrote the Book of Revelation. In 1088 the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos gave the island to a monk, Christodoulos, who completed most of the monastery three years later.
Because of pirates and the Seljuk Turks, Christodoulos fortified the monastery heavily. Its oldest parts are the 11th-century main church and refectory, and a two-storey arcade on the south side was added in 1698. The town of Chora grew up around the fortifications.
The library holds at least 330 manuscripts, 267 of them on parchment. In 1999 the monastery, the town of Chora and the Cave of the Apocalypse were inscribed together.
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