Location information

The Panagia Church

  The Byzantine church of the Panagia, in the location of Kalomiri, contains frescoes of the donors, which are believed to be Georgios and Moshana Kantanoleon. Georgios Kantanoleon was the leader of a successful revolution against the Venetians in the sixteenth century. He had established a government and was collecting taxes in the area. Other Byzantine churches in the area with (destroyed) frescoes are Agia Paraskevi, Agios Georgios and Agios Ioannis.

This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.

Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Site.jdp?ID=1076 (3 img.)