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On our descent from the Lasithi Plateau to Hersonnisos, we diverted slightly to see an old 13th Century church said to have the finest frescos in all of Crete.
A tiny little Byzantine church in Kritsa, it was called the Panagia Kera, which we reached via a heart-stopping single track, blind-bend, 10% gradient hilltop climb in the car complete with hairpin turns and landslides. We were shitting ourselves.
When we got there it was closed! Don't visit on a Monday. It was pitch black inside, but my camera did manage to pick some of the old paintings on the wall as well as an image on a window of what appears to be Christ.
The Venetians fortified the island in the 15th century, the Ottomans captured it in the 18th century, and finally became a leper colony in 1903 until 1957. Now only visited by tourists.
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.The capital and the largest city of Crete is Heraklion. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits. Crete was once the center of the Minoan civilization (c. 2700–1420 BC), which is currently regarded as the earliest recorded civilization in Europe.
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On our descent from the Lasithi Plateau to Hersonnisos, we diverted slightly to see an old 13th Century church said to have the finest frescos in all of Crete.
A tiny little Byzantine church in Kritsa, it was called the Panagia Kera, which we reached via a heart-stopping single track, blind-bend, 10% gradient hilltop climb in the car complete with hairpin turns and landslides. We were shitting ourselves.
When we got there it was closed! Don't visit on a Monday. It was pitch black inside, but my camera did manage to pick some of the old paintings on the wall as well as an image on a window of what appears to be Christ.