WEATHER

Anogeia

Light Showers
11°C
Wind: 15 Southwest

Rethymno

16°C
Wind: 27 West

Spili

14°C
Wind: 06 West

Fragma Potamon

17°C
Wind: 13 West

Armeni - Arkadi

Sights

Mirthios: In the hilly parts of this area, there are remains of forts that belong to towers with embrasures, which are called "Kouledes".

Kavousi: There is a rare forest of Aries, a kind of oak tree, in the wild landscape of this area.

At the site of Agio Pneuma, an important sanctuary flourished in the middle Minoan era.

At Selli, the wall-painted byzantine churches of Agios Ioannis Theologos (1411-1412) and Michael Archaggelos are intriguing.

Harkia: The inside of Agia Anna, the patron saint of this village, is quite impressive and there is an imposing oak tree outside, which has been characterized as a "monument of nature". At the southern exit, there is a beautiful monument that perpetuates the memory of the heroic ancestors of this village.

At Kavousi, it worth seeing the water spring on the east side of the village, as well as Agios Ioannis Theologos. After the village, there are remnants of an important forest of arias, oak trees, cypresses, pine trees, hollies and lindens.

The Monastery of Arkadi is a Pan-Hellenic symbol of freedom, because in the 1866 revolution its defenders preferred to sacrifice themselves rather than surrender to the besiegers. The building block of this monastery is square with the katholikon, the two-aisled church built in 1587, placed in the centre of the internal precinct. The front side of this church is of a renaissance type with baroque characteristics.