On the road from Chania to Rethymnon, on a plateau. It had two ports, Minoa and Kissamos. Ruins of buildings (8th - 7th century BC), imposing wall, theater, vaulted water tanks, baths and rectory from the Roman era, ruins of a Doric double temple of Demeter and other sanctuaries. To the west, an
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Ruins of the Archaic era at the site of Passopetra. A square building, called "the dance of the Greeks". Ancient cemetery. The Byzantine church of the Archangel Michael occupies part of the middle aisle of an early Christian basilica (6th century). Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
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Britomartys was probably a continuation of Minoan religious beliefs and has been combined with the goddess Artemis of the Greek pantheon of gods and deities. Diktynna was the most important sanctuary of the goddess Britomartys and a powerful factor in keeping the conflict between the most powerful
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Elyros is built on the "Kefala" hill, 500 m. southwest of the village of Rodovani in the province of Selino. It is considered the most important ancient city in southwestern Crete during Hellenistic and Roman times. Independent and autonomous she had minted her own currency. During Hellenistic times
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Lissos or Lissos/ Agios Kyrykos Port of Elyros, important for the sanctuary of Asclepius (1st century BC - 1st century AD). The sacred source-fountain and the Doric temple - house of Asclepius with a mosaic floor, where inscriptions and votive statues come from, are preserved (in the Archaeological
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The ancient city of Poikilassos (or Poikilasion) is located in western Crete at the location of Voukelassi and near the Trypitis gorge. It flourished until the Hellenistic years and was abandoned during the Roman period. It was a port of the Doric city of Elyros. Ptolemy gave it the name
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In the place of the modern homonymous settlement, acropolis, tanks and aqueduct. Temple ruins of the 4th - 3rd c. BC near the church of the Ninety-nine Fathers on the hilltop plateau. In NE., cemetery. In Roman times the city had under its jurisdiction the sanctuary of Diktynna in the creek of
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On the shores of the Libyan sea, at the exit of the gorge of Samaria. Strong fortification, sanctuary of Apollo Tarraeus and cemetery. Classic settlement also in today's Pano Agia Roumeli. Outdoor sanctuary of Archaic to Late Roman times in the gorge of Samaria. On the site of the Church of the
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Yrtakina, built on the inaccessible hill "Kastri" near the village of Temenia Selinou, was a strong inland, independent power founded during the Archaic period and flourished during Hellenistic times. Together with Lissos, Hyrtakina puts at the beginning of the 3rd c. BC the foundations for the
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Tombs of the 6th c. BC and harbor filled in today, harbor wall with towers of the 4th c. BC, temple, throne carved into the rock, inside the ancient cemetery. Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
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