The Virgin of Vlacherna is an imposing Byzantine church of the 10th-13th century, with later interventions, in the village of Vlacherna outside Arta. Originally built as a monastery catholic in the type of a three-aisled basilica and decorated with frescoes, sculptures, marble and mosaics, the Virgin of Vlacherna functioned as a burial temple of the family of Komnenos-Doukades, rulers of the Despotate of Epis.
