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Monasteries
Psiloritis is surrounded by small and big monasteries. North of the village Kitharida there is the Byzantine Monastery of Panagia Eleousa that is one of the oldest known monasteries in Crete. The female Monastery of Agia Irene at Krousonas is the biggest in Crete. The Monastery of Timios Stavros at Vosakos village is hidden in a plateau at Talaia Mountain and is being reconstructed in an exemplary way. The Monastery of Diskourios near Livadia village is connected, according to the legend, with the legendary Dioskouroi and has a collection of ecclesiastic and folkloric heirlooms. At the northeastern side the Monastery of Chalepa with the wonderful view of the low land of Mylopotamos prevails. The Monastery of Atali is a real oasis near the resort of Bali village. At the glebe of the Athonic Monastery of Karakallos at Margarites village lived the neomartyr of the Turkish invasion called Gedeon. Arkadi village was an important ecclesiastic center since the years of the Turkish invasion. After the holocaust at 1866 it was brought out as an eternal symbol of the battles of the Cretan people for freedom. At the low land of Amari there is the Byzantine Monastery of Asomatoi. At Voliones of Amari village we come across the Monastery of Agios Antonios at Veni. The Monasteries of Vrondisi and Varsamonero have been the centers of the development of the Cretan painting. Here was the center of the well known hagiographers Aggelos and Damaskinos.
Monastery of Vosakos
