West of the beach of Philippi, there are two small islands, the so-called Diaporia of Zakynthos. On the largest of the two islets, the monastery of Agios Andreos was built at the end of the 16th century. Due to natural disasters and geomorphology, the Holy Monastery was moved inland after a few years. The site had quickly gained a great reputation, but after the catastrophic earthquakes of 1953 it was destroyed again, without this time anything surviving the disasters. The islet is part of the Natura 2000 network as a protected area of ​​the west coast of Zakynthos.