Listed 5 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "SOUGIA Village CHANIA" .
KOUTSOGERAKO (Settlement) ANATOLIKO SELINO
The church of Agia Anna is on the opposite hill above the village
and contains frescoes. The view of the village from here is very attractive. There
is also a path from the village that goes east to the villages' high summer pastures
in the Lefka Ori.
The church of Agios Georgios on a hill above the village, has the date 1488 inscribed on its wall and contains frescoes by Georgios Provatopoulos.
MONI (Settlement) ANATOLIKO SELINO
The church of Agios Nikolaos has a Venetian bell tower and Byzantine
wall paintings from 1315 by Ioannis Pagomenos. There is an unusually large fresco
of Agios Nikolaos. The church is not seen from the road.
SOUGIA (Village) CHANIA
Above Sougia is the Byzantine church of Agia Irini. The church is
not visible from the town but can be reached after 4km along the dirt track (rough
on a car) going west at the entrance to Sougia. The hiker's reward is a spectacular
view of the bay from a hill high above Sougia. Agia Irini is a small but beautiful
church of cruciform architecture with a high dome at the centre.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
In Sougia there are the mosaic remains of a basilica of the first Byzantine period (6C). The remains are of excellent quality, the best of this era on Crete and represent exotic birds (peacocks--signs of immortality), flowers, as well as animals, and other patterns. The recently restored mosaics are in the modern church which has been built on top of them.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
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