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
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Gerakari - Aplitra (Toubotos Prinos Shelter)
Length: 22 km
Estimated time: 3-8 hours
Suggested period: January - December
Difficulty: Relatively difficult in the area of Fourfoura, near the shelter
Amari
(AKA: Nefs Amari)
The village of Amari belongs to the Municipality of Sivritos and is 40 km far from Rethymno. It is on a 460 m altitude and has 206 residents. The name of this village was first mentioned on an inscription at the church of Agia Anna, near the village, in the year of 6733 Anno Mundi, which corresponds to 1225 AD. It is also mentioned in a 1368 document (El. Santschi, Regestes des arrets ciνils etc. p. 140). Amari de partibus Sivritorum. In 1583 it is mentioned by Kastrofilakas (K 176) as Amari with 131 residents and, in 1630, by Vasilikatas as Amari. In the 1881 census, it is mentioned as belonging to the municipality of Monastiraki with 284 Christian residents and 8 Turks. In 1900 it is referred to as Nefs Amari in the same municipality with 378 residents. During the Turkish occupation it comprised a property donated to a monastery and is referred to as Nefs Amari, which means main Amari or capital.
In the center of the village, on the highest point of the rock, were the ruins of a small tower (1900), which hosted the offices of the "kastelania" (type of Venetian administration) of Amari. The oldest church of Agia Anna, with wall paintings picturing Christ and various saints, is in this village. The dedicatory inscription has the year of 1196 incised in it. There is also the church of Ag. Theodoros, with wall paintings and inscriptions that date back to 1588 and 1731. Not very far from the village, ruins of the Theotokos (Kera Panagia) church are saved, where bishop Labis Methodios Siligardos was killed in 1793.