Near Ligourio and more specifically between the villages of Adami and Koliaki, there is an old monastery called Panagia tou Kalamiou or Koimisi tis Theotokou in Kalami. The Monastery belongs administratively to the Municipality of Epidaurus, but the closest settlement to the Monastery is Adami, a picturesque village of the Municipality of Asklipieio.
The monastery is easily accessible from Adami with a branch of three kilometers of the public road Ligourio-Adamiou-Kranidi, shortly after Adami.
The location of the monastery is magnificent. Well-dressed and repressed by a magnificent mountain vegetation, which relaxes the anxiously tired soul and rejuvenates its pilgrims with its rich oxygen.
The Monastery of Kalami was founded during the first years of the 17th century. But it seems that there was a lonely life here long ago with isolated ascetics. Traces of these ascetics can be found at a greater or lesser distance around the site of the Monastery. Cave pits on the mountain slopes, simple stone structures and individual burials testify that monks lived here initially without a catholic, a phenomenon not uncommon of hermit monasticism.
According to the manuscript code of the Monastery of Taxiarches of Epidaurus and the tradition, the Monastery of Kalami owes its nickname to the place of origin of its first monks who were from Kalamata, Messinia. There is a second version that connects the name of the monastery with the adjacent mountain Kalami or Kalamani. The Monastery operated as a male monastery until its dissolution in 1834, according to the Royal Decree of September 25, 1833, because it had less than six monks, a numerical threshold for maintaining a Monastery. The Monastery was rebuilt after the establishment of the female fraternity (1972) on the site of the old male Monastery and its name was now officially recognized by Presidential Decree of August 20, 1974 "On the establishment of the Holy Convent of the Assumption of the Virgin Kalamriou Nafpro So in the 1970s pious souls, godly and godly people flooded the deserted courtyard of the Virgin Mary in Kalami and worked with enthusiasm and tireless diligence for the construction of the new monastery. These are the first nuns: Melani Frangou, Senate Tsoukalas, Christonymfi Dagouli, who arrived in Kalami in April 1972 and illuminated the ruins and dilapidated buildings with the spotlights of their souls. It is worth noting that the nun Melani Frangou is abbess of the Monastery since its reconstruction until today.
Of the buildings of the old monks, only the small church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary with its continuous extension is preserved today. Buildings that are examples of the austerity and austerity of those monks. In place of the ruined old cells, new ones were built in the 1970s according to the traditional standards of monastic architecture. From the imposing entrance, pillar type, leads the pilgrim right in front of the modern marble catholic of the Monastery which is located in the center of the inner four-sided courtyard. At the same time and to the left of the modern katholikon, the old katholikon is preserved. Three new building wings, the two two-storey and the north three-storey, are the equal number of sides of the imposing four-sided complex of new buildings. The upper floors on the north and east sides house the monks' cells, while their library and workshops occupy the entire middle ground floor of the north side. The lower floor, divided into three apartments, with a separate entrance to the outside courtyard, serves as a guest house. To the right and left of the entrance there are the reception areas and just opposite the ground floor on the east side are the Gerontiko, the monks' dining room, the kitchen and the cellar of the Monastery.
In the Holy Monastery of Kalami are kept Holy relics of Saint Niphon (1508), Saint Paraskevi (2nd c.), Saints Anargyros doctors Kosmas and Damianos (4th c.), The new Saint Arsenios of Paris (+31 January 1877) Hozevite Holy Martyrs (614 AD), Saint Athanasios, Bishop of Christianoupolis (+ early 18th century) and Saint Melanes of Rome (+8 June 410).
