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C H A P T E R 2 Tales of Neapoli and surroundings The small Museum of Neapoli contains an important collection of statues from Classical and Roman times The fountain in Houmeriakos was built during the long Turkish occupation of Crete Travelling back towards Ayios Nikolaos and passing through a deep gorge crowned by the Monastery of Ayios Georgios Selinari, one arrives at Neapoli, a lively agricultural town beneath the mountain of Mavro Dasos which has a beautiful little museum with finds from the excavations of Dreros and statues from the Roman era. In 1340 at Kares, the oldest part of Neapoli, a certain Petros Philargi was born, a young man of great intelligence who was sent to study in Paris and in Oxford in order to follow a career in the priesthood. He became archbishop of Milan and then cardinal, and finally, at the time of the schism in the Western Church (which saw the curia of Rome in opposition to that of Avignon) Petrus Philatri was made Pope, taking the name of Alexander V: he held the position for only a year, from 1409 to 1410 and died poisoned by his adversaries. A few kilometres from Neapoli, in the little village of Houmeriakos there remain some traces of Venetian influence, among which a little villa with an attractive ashlarwork doorway, which the Cretans call a Roman door. The town chronicles recount that in this house there once lived a Turk called Hussein who having fallen for the daughter of the local priest, kidnapped her with the intention of making her his lover. But at nightfall the maiden strangled the pasha, let herself down from the window disguised as a 52
man, joined the rebels and fled to the plain of Lasithi. Her true identity was revealed when the swipe of a sword slashed open her clothes, but she continued to fight until her death. The monument commemorating this Cretan "Joan of Arc" is to be found at the entrance to the town of Kritsa. The so-called "Roman door" and white steps at Houmeriakos Again travelling on from Neapoli, climbing up in the direction of the Lasithi plateau, one can visit Kremaston Monastery, sited on a rocky ridge (hence its name which means "suspended"), which is inhabited by a community of monks. Founded in 1593 and built like a small fort, the monastery has been rebuilt several times, and in the twentieth century opened a school for children and ceded its agricultural lands to the Agricultural Commission which turned them into a model farm. The monastery of Kremaston was recently restored 53
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CHAPTER 5 PLACES OF WORSHIP UNDER A
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C H A P T E R 5 The peak sanctuary
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At the Museum of Ayios Nikolaos all
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C H A P T E R 5 The Christian basil
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C H A P T E R 5 A deep, dark hole m
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C H A P T E R 5 Zakros and the Vall
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C H A P T E R 5 sculpted by nature,
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Chronology 7000 B.C. Stone Age, arr
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