Worth a Detour
Agia Triada Monastery
A 17th-century monastery among olive groves and vineyards on the Akrotiri peninsula.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid; a small fee
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Agia Triada, AkrotiriDirections
- Getting There
- About 25 minutes by car northeast of Chania.
Why Go
Two Venetian-Cretan brothers who had become monks founded it in the 1630s. The golden stone front, with its columns, looks more like a Venetian villa than a Greek monastery, and the monks still make their own olive oil and wine.
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