Khrysafa (Hrissafa)

18km/11mi east of Sparta we come to Khrysafa, with four churches containing frescoes - Khrysafiótissa (1290), Áyii Pántes (All Saints; 1367), the Dormition (Kímisis) and Áyios Dimítrios (17th C.) - and the monastery of the Pródromos (St John the Baptist), which has a church of 1625.