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Museum of Byzantine Icons

The Longhena portal of the Scoletta di San Nicolò, entrance to the Icon Museum of the Hellenic Institute
The Longhena portal of the Scoletta di San Nicolò, entrance to the Icon Museum of the Hellenic Institute Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

In the quiet little courtyard of the Scoletta di San Nicolò, next to the Orthodox church of San Giorgio dei Greci, a small museum unique in Italy keeps the treasure of the most important Greek community in the West: the Icon Museum of the Hellenic Institute.

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