Monastery of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary of Osdinas

During the local tradition, it is a universal monastery. It belongs to the cruciform temple “with a triple-shaped arch in the east, built with treated stones and sparsely interfering bricks on all sides. For the Haveries of the Temple, Ioannis Petrifas and Papa Galani and for the year of build (1609), we draw from a brick-on-site inscription that is built on the eastern side, while a second to the north refers to the addition of transverse arch in 1610 in the form that the temple is preserved today. All inner surfaces are adorned with performances grown in zones and are defined by red-colored tapes with a white frame. Inscription above the entrance on the west side of the temple, states that painting decoration was made with the expense of Papa Galani and Mother of Eugenia. The mural decoration of the temple seems to follow the oldest artistic tradition of the area, as expressed in the works of the School of Northwest Greece in the 16th century, while contacts are detected with famous workshops from the Linopi of Kastoria. Its essential features are integrated in the context of the 17th century art., Characterized by the elecution in the performance of forms, narrative mood, but also the tendency to simplify the compositions. ” At the temple one reaches through the village of Plakotis from the old National Road Ioannina-Igoumenitsa