At the northeastern end of the island, on a windswept plateau rising among groves and vineyards, stands the church of Virgin Mary of Charos (=Death). The monument belongs to the transitional cross-inscribed architectural type but its plan is not standard, as the intersection of the arms of the cross supports a low, blind hemispherical dome,
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At a short distance south of the settlement, to the right of the road that descends to Kouselio, before the church of Virgin Mary (Presentation of the Virgin) the remains of ancient buildings are found. In a cultivated field and a few meters from the shore, a wall of a rectangular ground plan ancient building
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In the area of Kambos, northwest of the port of Lipsi, on a plot of 5,000 square meters owned by D. Colombini, an excavation carried out between 2008 and 2010 revealed the ruins of part of a workshop for the production of amphorae. The remnants of four square kilns, part of a floor and storerooms
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Remains of a Hellenistic fortification are preserved on the hill of Kastro, southeast of Tarsana. It is the acropolis of the island, a fortress that controls the port, the bay of Katsadia and other coves to the west and mainly the sea crossings, facing Patmos. At the top of the hill, about 107m high, an
The Ecclesiastical – Folk Art Collection of Lipsi was assembled in 1976 by Lipsiot archimandrite Nikiforos Koumoundouros. It is kept in a ground-floor hall in Emmanuel Xanthou Square at the centre of the settlement, opposite the church of Saint John the Theologian. The archaeological objects in the modest collection range in date from Mycenaean to
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The church of the Virgin Mary of Charos is located at the northeastern end of the island, on a windswept plateau, among orchards and vineyards. The Byzantine monument, which belongs to the transitional cross-in-square architectural type, houses the miraculous icon of the Virgin of Charos. It is a Russian work, probably of the 18th century,
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