Platania Gorge is located on the western outskirts of Psiloritis and its entrance is in the village of the same name. It is a small but impressive canyon, with a rich vegetation of endemic and other plants, predatory birds that find shelter here, and sheer vertical...
Plateau Gious Kambos is located on the western edge of Mount Kedros at an altitude of 750m and can be accessed through the villages Gerakari, Kissos, Spili, or Patsos. According to an imaginative, but unsubstantiated view expressed by Michael Defner (German...
In the settlement of Meronas, the priest Cristoforo Buondelmonti mentions at the beginning of the 15th century the dynamic presence of the Kallergis family who seems to have completely controlled the area and rallied the orthodox population against the Venetians. In...
The Holy Asomaton Monastery, dedicated to the Synaxis of the Archangels, is built in the center of the extremely fertile valley of Amari. The current complex has been formed from the end of Venetian rule until the 19th century, while several incompatible interventions...
An important Minoan palatial center of the palaeopalatial period 2000-1700 BC has been excavated outside of Monastiraki, at the site of “Kokkinos Harakas”, which seems to have been closely connected with Phaistos. It is a fairly extensive facility,...
