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AGIA TRIADA (Archaeological site) TYMBAKI
Agia Triada is 64km southwest of Iraklion via the Iraklion - Agia Varvara - Agii Deka - Mires - Festos - Agia Triada road. It is very near Festos. During Minoan times a road ran from Festos to the royal palace of Agia Triada. This palace, or villa, may have been the summer residence of the kings of Festos, although this remains a mystery.
AGIOS IOANNIS (Village) TYMBAKI
The village of Agios Ioannis is very near Festos and contains an interesting
Byzantine church.
FANEROMENI (Village) TYMBAKI
Old village of the municipality of Timbaki with 837 inhabitants. It is built on the right bank of the river "Katsoulidis" in a wonderful green landscape with large groves of citrus trees.
The near by church of "Panagia faneromeni" gave the name to the village.
Various findings from tha ancient times such as a double axe. were discovered in the area.
The churches of "Agios Antonios" and "Panagia" were violated by the Turks in 1866.
FESTOS (Minoan settlement) HERAKLIO
KAMARES (Village) TYMBAKI
The village of Kamares is 57km southwest of Iraklion on the Iraklion
- Agia Varvara - Gergeri - Kamares road. Kamares took its name from the cave used
by the Minoans that is above the village. Kamares means arches in Greek.
A little after Grigoria, at 600m a.s.l., is located the historical village of Kamares with 491 inhabitants. This village was destroyed together with the villages Magarikari and Lohria, by the Germans during the world war II (1944) due to the help that the locals used to offer to the partisans.
Above the village, at 1524m a.s.l. lies the famous CAVE OF KAMARES (Spileon Kamaron). This was used as a place of worship during Minoan times and it was here that Minoan pottery made with exceptional skill was found - called "Kamares ware" by archaeologists.
From Kamares is also possible to climb up to the Idaion Andron.
This text is cited Dec 2003 from the Interkriti URL below, which contains images.
KAMILARI (Village) TYMBAKI
Kamilari is 67km south east of Iraklion on a left (west) turn from
the Matala - Agios Ioannis - Festos road. Near the village of the same name is
the famous Kamilari Tomb, the best-preserved Minoan vaulted tomb in the area,
dating from 2000 B.C.
This text is cited Dec 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
MAGARIKARI (Village) TYMBAKI
Magarikari is located on the South - western side of the mountain Psiloritis at 450m a.s.l. in a forest of more than 500 ha. It is a rich and picturesque village with plenty of natural beauties and a wonderful view to the valley of Messara, the mountain range of Asterousia and the Libyan sea.
Magarikari is the birthplace of the famous rebel Petrakogiorgis, and was totally destroyed by the Germans during the German occupation.
It is mentioned by the Venetians since the 15 century A.D.
This text is cited Dec 2003 from the Interkriti URL below, which contains images.
VORI (Village) HERAKLIO
The village of Vori is north of the road from Mires to Timbaki in
the Mesara Plain, and it is 62km from Iraklion following the Iraklion - Agia Varvara
- Agii Deka - Mires - Timbaki road. In Vori there is a very good museum of Cretan
Ethnology, and the area near Vori has interesting Byzantine churches.
FESTOS (Minoan settlement) HERAKLIO
Phaistos: Eth. Phaistios. A town in the S. of Crete, distant 60 stadia
from Gortyna, and 20 from the sea. (Strab. x. p. 479; Plin. iv. 12. s. 20.) It
s said to have derived its name from an eponymous hero Phaestus, a son of Hercules,
who migrated from Sicyon to Crete. (Paus. ii. 6. § 7; Steph. B. s. v.; Eustath.
ad Hom. l. c.) According to others it was founded by Minos. (Diod. v. 78; Strab.
l. c.) It is mentioned by Homer (Il. ii. 648), and was evidently one of the most
ancient places in the island. It was destroyed by the Gortynians, who took possession
of its territory. (Strab. l. c.) Its port was Matalum, from which it was distant
40 stadia, though it was only 20 from the coast. (Strab. l. c.) We also learn
from Strabo that Epimenides was a native of Phaestus. The inhabitants were celebrated
for their sharp and witty sayings. (Athen. vi. p. 261, e.) Phaestus is mentioned
also by Scylax, p. 18; Polyb. iv. 55.
Stephanus B. (s. v. Phaistos) mentions in the territory of Phaestus
a place called Lisses, which he identifies with a rock in the Odyssey (iii. 293),
where in our editions it is not used as a proper name, but as an adjective,--lisse,
smooth. Strabo (l. c.) mentions a place Olysses or Olysse in the territory of
Phaestus (Olussen tes Phaistias); but this name is evidently corrupt; and instead
of it we ought probably to read Lisses. This place must not be confounded with
Lissus. which was situated much more to the W.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town in the southern part of Crete, near Gortyna, twenty stadia from the sea, with a port-town Matala, said to have been built by Phaestus, son of Heracles. It was the birthplace of Epimenides.
Classical and Hellenistic city situated 5 km W of Mires. The site
is best known for its Minoan palace and underlying pre-palatial village. There
was, however, a flourishing Geometric settlement there, and occupation continued
in the archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. The extensive city of the
last period was eventually destroyed by the neighboring city of Gortyn in the
middle of the 2d c. B.C.
Remains of the Geometric settlement are most impressively preserved
on the slopes at the SE foot of the acropolis hill. Here several well-constructed
houses are served by a cobbled road which has been traced up the S slope of the
hill toward the old W court of the Minoan palace. Traces of a Geometric defense
wall around the acropolis have also been noted in excavation. Of the archaic period,
the only building to survive in recognizable form is an oblong structure at the
SW corner of the palace, which is usually identified as a temple, probably dedicated
to Rhea. Archaic deposits have been found elsewhere on both the hill and the lower
slopes, however.
Hellenistic remains are the most widespread and best preserved at
Phaistos. They are known to cover an area extending from immediately W of the
palace, down the slopes W of (and originally probably over) the W Court, and thence
farther down the slopes either side of a Hellenistic successor to the Geometric
roadway, to the area of the earlier Geometric settlement. On the SE slopes of
the hill, Hellenistic houses were found to belong to two phases, the earlier destroyed
by earthquake and the latter, presumably, by the Gortynians. A fine series of
Hellenistic houses, terraced into the steep hillside, have been excavated on the
S and SW slopes of the hill, but these were removed in order to facilitate the
excavation of Minoan levels. The best-preserved Hellenistic houses are therefore
those standing on a platform above the W Court. Most of the remains here belong
to a single house with a small open courtyard around which were grouped the main
domestic rooms.
Although the city was destroyed in the mid 2d c. B.C., it is clear
that there was some sporadic Roman occupation of the site. Early excavations found
Roman deposits above the palace, and more recently an extensive though shabbily
built late Roman farmhouse has been discovered overlying the destroyed Hellenistic
buildings on the SE slopes.
The city's water supply probably came from the river Hieropotamos,
which runs around the base of the hill, and from a series of deep wells, of which
a Hellenistic example has been excavated on the SW slopes. Matala, 9 km to the
SW, served as the principal port for Phaistos, although Komo is thought to have
continued to operate as its port after the close of the Bronze Age. Finds from
the site are mainly in the Herakleion Archaeological Museum, although some of
the pottery material is in the Stratigraphic Museum at Phaistos itself.
K. Branigan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains 34 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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