Rock Paintings of the Southwestern Shore

Along the southwestern shore of Great Prespa, painted figures can still be discerned on the cliffs—once part of the interior decoration of small churches and hermitages. In a shallow niche carved into the rock, the Virgin Blachernitissa can be seen, accompanied by an inscription dated 1455, while a little further on, the Virgin Eleousa of 1373, preserved within the interior of its cave chapel, remains almost untouched by time. These rock paintings are visible only from the water, as you travel across Great Prespa and watch the shoreline transform into an open-air iconostasis, where nature and faith become one.