While touring around the island you will see many churches and monasteries.
The monastery of Panormitis is the most important in the island and second in Dodecanese after the monastery of Saint John in Patmos. It is located in the south end of Symi, built in a closed cove with sand. The exact date of its construction stays unknown, but we do know that it was renovated at the end of the 18^th century. It is dedicated to Taxiarch Michail and his icon is inside the church. On the day of his celebration many pilgrims of all Dodecanese come to the island.
The monastery’s dorm house can host up to 500 people. Reaching it can be only by boat from Gialos.
Worth visiting are also the monasteries of: Roukounioti dedicated to Archangel Michail and has remarkable murals of the 14sup>th century. The Monastery of Kokkimidis is an old, byzantine monastery renovated in 1697. The Monastery of Sotiros and of Stavros Polemou are on the west coast.