The pine-bell tower of Agios Antonis ton Spilion
It is a treasured, multi-stranded, symmetrical pine in front of the western entrance of the old church of St. Anthony of Spilia. At some point the trunk is divided into two thick arches. Between them, the bell tower of the church was created.
At the base of the Pine tree is a huge rectangular stone. Tradition says that once, a local tried to cut down the Pine and failed. That night, as it is said, Saint Anthony placed the huge stone there to cover the wound and save the tree.
The old church of Agios Antonios is stone-built, one-aisled and stone arches supporting a wooden roof. The church’s iconostasis was simple pine wood, but the backyards were of exceptional art, illustrated and apparently brought from another temple. The conservator of ancient icons, Christos Karis, dates back to the 16th century. Some residents claim that the backyards come from one of the many temples that existed in the mountains and valleys from Spilia to Asinou. All the testimonies convinced that these churches are indeed of the 16th century. Another testimony says that in Spilia there was a temple of St. John at his western entrance. Some places this temple at the western entrance of the village. Perhaps the backyards belonged to this temple.
The church’s iconostasis was made with pine wood, but the altar entrance doors were of exceptional art, illustrated and apparently brought from another church. The conservator of ancient icons, Christos Karis, dates them back to the 16th century. Some residents claim that the doors come from one of the many churches in the mountains and valleys from Spilia to Asinou. All the testimonies convince us that these churches are indeed of the 16th century. Another testimony says that in the western entrance of the village of Spilia there was a church of Agios Ioannis. Perhaps the altar doors belonged to this church.
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