Monasteries / Churches

Crete has lots of beautiful monasteries, churches and chapels; unfortunately today many of them are very much threatened by maturity. This applies especially to magnificent frescoes and ikon paintings from the years 961-1204 and primarily for over 300 registered Byzantine churches.
The info sheets introduces monasteries, churches and chapels in detail with pictures, but not only the known Churches and monastery complexes get in to account, even the small, unknown, lonesome and lurked chapels will be shown. They often can be found on mountain tops and on historical ground of mountain sanctuary. They are worth seeing and often accommodate some treasure.

The photo shows the chapel Agios Pandeleimonas at the top of Mesa Patela near the ruins of an ancient settlement from Hellenistic period.

 

Leaflets

Geographic Map
006-04/E - Jeep Tour to the
Monastery Koudoumà 321-10/E - Monastery Koudoumà

 

026-04/E - Jeep Tour to the
Monastery Saint Antonios 038-04/E - Monastery Agia Triada & Gouvernéto

 

 

Please see 2nd Page of the leaflet
for the individual topic

033-04/E - Arkadi 034-04/E - Monastery Kapsa

 
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