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VATHYPETRO (Settlement) HERAKLIO
You can reach the mountain's imposing summit from a road between Arhanes
and Vathipetro. From Arhanes the road continues to Vathipetro and in 3km there
is a right turn on a roughly paved road to the summit of Mount Youktas (4km).
The ancients believed Zeus was buried here, despite his immortality. There is
a Minoan sanctuary as well as a Byzantine church at the summit. The view from
the top is spectacular as you look down on the city of Iraklion, the island of
Dia, the area around Knossos, Archanes, and vineyards and on clear day you can
see to the Lefka Ori in western Crete and to the Dikte Mountains in the east.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
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