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EPISKOPI (Small town) HERAKLIO
The village of Episkopi, Pediada is 18km southeast of Iraklion off
an exit at 8 km on the south fork of the Iraklion - Agios Nikolaos highway. Many
interesting Byzantine churches are located in the area of Episkopi. Within the
village are the Byzantine churches of Michael Archangelos, Agia Paraskevi, and
Agios Ioannis which contains frescoes. In particular, Agios Ioannis has very striking
frescoes, especially the one of Christ ascending into heaven. Giuseppe Gerola
considered it to be among the best in Crete.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
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