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Byzantine church of Evangelismos

EVANGELISMOS (Village) KASTELI
  In the village of Evangelismos is the Byzantine church of Evangelismos containing some unusual frescoes, including one that represents Adam and Eve in paradise. The church has cruciform architecture without a dome and the transept of the church is higher than the nave.

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Agia Fotini and Agios Spiridon byzantine church

KASTELI (Village) HERAKLIO
  In Kastelli is the Byzantine church of Agia Fotini and Agios Spiridon. The church has an unusual shape composed of two aisles, one shorter and smaller than the other. The exterior decorations of the windows and doors are interesting.

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Byzantine church of Timios Stavros

LYKTOS (Ancient city) KASTELI
  The city also existed in Byzantine times. The church of Timios Stavros is built on the site of an earlier, fifth century, basilica.

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Byzantine church of Agios Pandeleimonas

PIGI (Settlement) KASTELI
  In Pigi the Byzantine church of Agios Pandeleimonas, one of the oldest on Crete, is in a serene setting near trees and water. It is a three-aisled basilica and the three aisles are separated by four arches in each aile. The last arch towards the sanctuary is higher and circular. The arches are supported by columns without capitals. One column is constructed from column capitals only, one above the other. Those and many other parts of the church seem to have been taken from older Byzantine or Roman buildings on the site. The outside walls of the church are decorated with marbles, crosses, and inscriptions. One side of the church has blind Byzantine brick arches that extend nearly to the roof of the church. The frescoes in the church are in two overlapping layers with the first layer containing some of the oldest paintings in Crete.

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Byzantine church of Esodia Theotokou

SKLAVEROCHORI (Settlement) KASTELI
  The village of Sklaverohori contains a Byzantine church, the Presentation of the Virgin (Esodia Theotokou) with well-preserved frescoes of the fifteenth-sixteenth century that are of high artistic quality.

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Monastery of St. John of Kallergi

KASTELI (Village) HERAKLIO
  About 5 km NW of Kasteli, a sign on the road indicates the way to the Monastery of Kallergi, a lovely place, shady and cool, full of flowers. The church of Aghios Ioannis was renovated in 1912, according to the inscription on the belfry, but bears obvious architectural elements belonging to earlier dates.
  The abbot Methodios Perakis bought the monastery in 1874 from the larger monastery of Vidiani in the Lassithi plateau. There are traces of monks having lived here at a much earlier date, and according to M. Karavelakis, the present building was erected ca. 1850 on the ruins of an older one.
  The monastery was abandoned after its 1912 renovation, and a fire completed its destruction in 1931, burning down over 800 trees. Nowadays, the ancient church is in reasonably good condition and the main building has been restored, with the vaulted SW part turned into a refectory. There is a newer church built just outside the precincts of the monastery.