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Kaisariani Monastery 3
In the photo above is the Kellai (Cellae) of Kaisariani Monastery. It is the place where the monks lived.
BIn the photo above is the Refectory and Kitchen. The monks lived in their rooms (kellai), but the meal was communal and all gathered in this building to eat.
In the photo right and below are one of the entrance of the Refectory. We can see that a Roman building element is reused as lintel. As it was already said, there was a villa here in the Roman period, and this must be one of the items came from the villa.
It was not allowed to go inside.
In the photo below is the bath complex of the monastery, but now it is restored as when it was used as olive-oil extracting establishment. According to the guide plate on site, this bath has much in common with the Roman baths, and it possesed a changing room, Frigidarium (cold-water bath), Tepidarium (warm-water bath), and Caldarium (hot-water bath, also known as Esoteros, Endoteros Tholos, Zeston, Thermon). Neither this place was accessible to visitors.
Reference
- Molly Mackenzie, Turkish Athens, The Forgotten Centuries 1456-1832, Reading/ Ithaca Press 1992.
- Robin Barbar, Greece (Blue Guide), London- N.Y. 2001 (Revised reprint of the 6th edition of 1995), pp. 125-26.
- Guide panel on site.
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