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The monastery is located on the cliffs overlooking Jericho

• ...that the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu, Greece, dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias, was donated by the first female Greek mayor, Maria Desylla-Kapodistria?
• ...that the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians?
• ... that the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and forty nights fasting and meditating during the temptation of Satan?