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
Gerakari
Gerakari
Monastery of Agios Fotis: The church of Agios Fotis is in the area of Agios Fotis village, at Gerakari. At the Monastery of Agios Ioannis Theologos at Gerakari there is the katholikon, which is considered to be the oldest Byzantine church in Crete. Inside, it is decorated with 12th-13th century wall paintings. Gerola mentions that these wall paintings "take us to an imaginary world, a strange place...". The building has many similarities with the katholikon of the Monastery of Kaloeidaina, particularly as concerns the domes of the western part, a phenomenon which occurs very rarely among Cretan churches. The monument was destroyed in the first years of the Greek Revolution of 1821.