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Agios Konstantinos

Agios Konstantinos name is taken from the local church. It is testified in Venetian censuses of the 16th and 17th centuries, while in the Egyptian administration's 1834 census it comprised 50 families. In 1881 it formed part of the Municipality of Roustika and had 263 inhabitants; by 1900 this number had increased to 345. Since 1928 it has formed a community in its own right. Under Venetian rule it was a fief of the Barozzi family - to this day the village retains the overall appearance of that time. Several fine houses were built during the period Agios Konstantinos served as a summer retreat for the Venetian nobles of Rethymnon. The drinking fountain erected by the Barozzi family can still be seen one mile to the east of the village. The municipal ward of Agios Konstantinos includes the Venetian settlement of Agios Georgios, lying at an altitude of 390m.

Kato Varsamonero

KATO VALSAMONERO (Village) NIKIFOROS FOKAS
  The old village of Kato Varsamonero is 14km from Rethimnon on a road right at 12km of the old road from Rethimnon to Chania. In Kato Varsamonero is a single-roomed Byzantine church.

Roustika

ROUSTIKA (Village) NIKIFOROS FOKAS
  Roustika, 21km from Rethimnon, is a village in central Rethimnon on a left branch (at 16km) of the old road to Chania. The village maintains some aspects of traditional village architecture and traces of its Venetian past.

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


Roustika is mentioned by Barozzi (1577), Kastrofilakas (1583) and Vasilikatas (1630), as well as in the Ottoman census of 1671 and the Egyptian one of 1834. In the 1881 census Roustika is given as the seat of a municipality of the same name, with approximately 440 inhabitants - thereafter it appears as the seat of a community. The village nestles among beautiful surroundings and resembles a miniature citadel when viewed from a distance.

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