The building complex of Panagia Episkopi is located south of the village of Mesa Gonia, on the eastern slope of a steep hill that rises near the rocky mountain massif of Prophet Elias. It covers an area 35 x 60 m and includes the catholicon and the cistern, as well as buildings arranged in the shape of a Π, which in their current form appear to be buildings of the 19th-20th centuries. Only the cistern probably dates back to the Byzantine era. In the middle of the complex stands the mid-Byzantine church of Episkopi, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and that served as the seat of the Orthodox and later the Latin bishop. It is one of the most remarkable monuments of the Cyclades, with which the name of Emperor Alexios Komnenos is associated, himself closely linked to the most important Byzantine monuments of the Aegean.

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