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Monastery of St. Nicholas at Zaros

  North of the village, in the gorge of Agios Nikolaos, is the monastery of Agios Nikolaos with the Byzantine church of Agios Nikolaos, which contains frescoes, and the Byzantine cave church of Agios Efthimios with frescoes and an inscription of 1438. The walk to Agios Efthimios takes about 45 minutes.

This extract is cited Dec 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.

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North of the village, in the gorge of Agios Nikolaos, is the monastery of Agios Nikolaos with the Byzantine church of Agios Nikolaos, which contains frescoes, and the Byzantine cave church of Agios Efthimios with frescoes and an inscription of 1438. The walk to Agios Efthimios takes about 45 minutes.

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Byzantine church of the Panagia

  In the village of Panagia near Zaros, is the very interesting three-ailed basilica of the Panagia. There are Byzantine marble reliefs inside the church and a column of a previous church or older temple is still standing in the church. Above the entrance portal there is a small window with Byzantine marble reliefs decorating it.

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

Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Site.jdp?ID=1380 (7 img.)