Chora, Greece
Patmos
The Greek island where John was sent away as a prisoner and wrote the book of Revelation. His cave is still there.
Biblical significance
John was banished to this Dodecanese island around AD 95. The Cave of the Apocalypse, halfway up the hill between the port and the hilltop town, is now enclosed in a chapel; a threefold fissure in the rock is shown as the source of the voice. Above it, the fortified Monastery of St John the Theologian, founded in 1088, dominates the island and holds a major manuscript library.
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Best time to go
May-June or September; ferries thin out in winter.
Visitor notes
Ferry from Athens, Kos or Samos. Both cave and monastery close early afternoon.
Coordinates
37.3089, 26.5478
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