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The castle of Panteli
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The Castle of Panteli, an important medieval monument of Leros, is located on the east coast of the island, on the Pitis (Apityki) hill, between the villages of Platanos and Agia Marina. The two inner enclosures of the first building phase of the castle date to the middle Byzantine period. The previous confirmed chronology before the construction of the castle is the year 1087, when a chrysobull issued by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos , granted half of the castle to Christodoulos Latrinos, founder of the Monastery of John the Theologian in Patmos, on behalf of the Monastery of Our Lady Kastrianon of Kos. The existing Byzantine walls of the castle were repaired by the Hospitallers from the late 15th to early 16th century, and a new external enclosure was built, which fully complied with the requirements of the established use of firearms. The coats of arms of knight as Magisters scattered around the castle attest to the care of the Hospitallers to strengthen it.
 
Five churches still survive inside the walls, including the church of Our Lady of the Castle. The temple, built in the late 17th century after the miraculous, according to tradition-appearance of the icon of the Virgin Mary in the gunpowder store of the castle, now houses the Ecclesiastical Museum of Leros.


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