The monastery is located at the exit of the Arvi gorge and possibly on the site of the former sanctuary of Arvios Zeus. Today it is abandoned. It is assumed that it was founded around 1880 by the monk Artemios. The story says that Artemios initially chose as a site for the Monastery the exit of the
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It is built at 630 altitude in the SW of Krousonas and is about 25 km from the city of Heraklion. According to tradition, it had many monks until 1822, when the Turks slaughtered them and destroyed the monastery's buildings and church. The monastery began to be rebuilt in 1936 and then by the then
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The Monastery of Agios Ioannis Theologos is located in the east of Anopoleos Pediada, at a distance of 150 meters. The monastery was a successor to another older monastery of Agios Georgios, which was located on the left bank of the Aposelemis stream, approximately 800 meters from the sea. That
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South of Voni, at a distance of about 500 m. is the chapel of Agia Marina, which is considered miraculous. In fact, in the past, as it is believed, it gushed from the area of the holy ajasma. It gathers thousands of pilgrims from all parts of Crete, on the day of the Saint's celebration, on July
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Monastery in which only the frescoed Church of Agios Nikolaos is preserved. The frescoes date from the 14th century. It used to be a nunnery. Abandoned for unknown reasons. In recent years it has become an Old Calendarist monastery. Source: HERAKLION DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
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The Holy Sanctuary "Agia Fotini the Samaritis" is located in Ellinoperamata (or Linoperamata) Heraklion. Ellinoperamata is a seaside village in the province of Malevizio and belongs to the municipal district of Rodia. The Sanctuary was founded in June 1991 by the archbishop of Crete Timotheo. On the
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The Agia Moni (or Dormition Monastery) is located in Ano Viannos (altitude 560 m.), around 40 km west of Ierapetra. It is an Androa monastery that covers a small area. It includes the modest church of the Dormition of the Virgin and the monks' cells. Characteristic is the marble relief decoration of
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The Agarathos monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is located on a rather rocky hill between the villages of Sgourokefali and Sambas at a distance of 23 km from Heraklion. Although the time of its foundation is not ascertained, it is considered one of the oldest monasteries in Crete and it
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On a plateau of Asterousia is the men's Monastery of Apezanon. According to a view that is considered the most prevalent, the Monastery was founded in 1458. The Papadopoulos brothers from Handakas are mentioned as the founders or renovators of the Monastery. Although as it is said there was a
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In the region of Vorizia, at a distance of about 55 km from the city of Heraklion, there is the Varsamonerou monastery. The monastery is deserted today, without cells but with one of the most important frescoed temples of Crete, where the high level of the artistic currents formed at the end of the
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It is one of the most famous monasteries of the prefecture. It was a notable center of letters and the arts during the Cretan Renaissance. Michael Damascenos painted six of his most important pictures here, while tradition also has El Greco apprenticed for a while in the monastery's workshop. The
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On a verdant hillside, above the village of Potames, is the Monastery of Gouverniotissa, which probably dates back to the second half of the 14th century BC. Until the beginning of the 20th century, it functioned as a monastic share of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. Nowadays the Monastery is not
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It is located 24 km from Heraklion, in the area of Kato Asita and is built in the foothills of Psiloritis, at an altitude of 530m. It was destroyed by the Turks when the latter occupied the island, rebuilt and destroyed again in the revolution of 1866, as, due to its mountainous position, it
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The Holy Monastery of Agios Georgios Apanosifis or Apanosifis is located approximately in the center of the prefecture of Heraklion and Crete in general. It is the largest monastery since its foundation in Crete in terms of number of Monks, not only registered but also those who left. The Monastery
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The Holy Monastery of Jerusalem belongs to the province of Malevizio which occupies the northwestern part of the prefecture of Heraklion. There is no information about its establishment. It is mentioned for the first time in the patriarchal tables in 1654 when it was converted into a stauropigian
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Kallergi Monastery is dedicated to Saint John the Forerunner. It is located southeast of the village of Smario and south of the peak of Voukolia, at a distance of two kilometers from Kastelli. It was built a hundred years ago. As mentioned by Menelaos Parlamas in 1949, the place was suitable for the
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It belongs to the municipal district of Faneromeni and is 60 km from Heraklion. It is mentioned for the first time in the 1900 census with 11 male and 7 female residents. According to one hypothesis, during the period of the Venetian rule, a local feudal lord built the church of Panagia i Kalyviani,
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Close to Voros dominates the Monastery of Keras Eleousa, which was founded during the period of the Venetian occupation. The choice of the fortified site, the architectural type reminiscent of a fortress and the battlements on the eastern side of the enclosure suggest that at the time of its
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It is a nunnery located on a slope of the Lasithi mountains, next to the village of Kera. From the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary located in the church of Agios Alphonsus in Rome and belonging to the 2nd Byzantine period, it can be concluded that the monastery was built in this period. In 1333
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It is located at a distance of 70 km from Heraklion in a dry and barren area full of Byzantine monuments. It is one of the most important monasteries of Crete with a history closely linked to the history of the small monasteries and hermitages of the area. It is of the fortress type with a large
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It is one of the oldest monasteries of Crete at a distance of 21.3 km from Heraklion. It is located in a green area in the southeast of the village of Venerato. It was built on the ruins of an ancient temple, as confirmed by the capitals found in the Monastery's enclosure. It is dedicated to the
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The Holy Sanctuary of Panagia Pantanassi ("Queen of All") is built at an altitude of 30 m and is located 14 km west of Heraklion. It is a women's monastery dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin and celebrates on September 8. The Monastery was founded in 1963 by Metropolitan Nikolaos Xeno with the
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The Rodia Monastery is known as the Holy Sanctuary of the Entrances of the Virgin. The village of Rodia (or Rogdia) is located at an altitude of 300 m on the slope of Marmarokefala, 16 km northwest of Heraklion. It is a women's convent founded in 1990 by Metropolitan Nektarios Papadakis. The area of
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It is located in the NW of Rhodia, in an area with a rich religious tradition. According to some, its name refers to the coastal monastery of Agios Savvas which was abandoned due to pirate raids, a hypothesis that is disputed by many. During the period of the siege of Khandaka by the Turks, the
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About 20 km south of the city of Heraklion, between the villages of Houdetsi and Agios Vasileios, is the cave-like Monastery of Panagia "Spiliotissa". The sanctuary was built on a rock of the Spiliotissa canyon after the icon of the Virgin Mary was found at this point. The Monastery was founded at
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