Listed 1 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "ELEFTHERNA Village ARKADI" .
ELEFTHERNA (Village) ARKADI
On the eastern side of the acropolis hill, reached through the village
of ancient Eleftherna, there is the Byzantine church of Sotiras Christos from
the tenth century, which contains frescoes of the twelfth century. It has cruciform
architecture and a rectangular shape. The church has re-used materials from an
earlier church of the sixth century, a basilica which is believed to have been
the bishopric of Eleftherna during the first Byzantine period. Lower still, on
the same dirt track, there are the remains of another basilica of the first Byzantine
period, a Roman villa, and of a second Greek bridge.
This extract is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
Receive our daily Newsletter with all the latest updates on the Greek Travel industry.
Subscribe now!