Welcome to hotels in  Korakies, Akrotiri     Korakies is loacted near to the great natural Bay of Souda is a particularly breathtaking sight  in a most enviable position high on a hillside on the Akrotiri Peninsula with glorious 360 degree panoramic views. A couple of kilometres outside Chania on your way to the airport, a road branches off to the village of Korakies, where you find a beautiful convent. The original name of the convent was Agios Ioannis o Vitas. But nobody knows, who this Vitas actually was. He was presumably the founder of the convent, or a person under whom the convent has been renovated. Today the convent, dedicated to Agios Ioannis o Prodromos (St. John the Baptist), is simply called The Convent or The Convent of Korakies. Its church has two naves: one to St. John the Baptist and one to Agios Georgios. It is not known with certainty either, when the convent was founded, but it existed as a convent as early as in the Venetian and the Turkish periods, when young girls sought refuge here to avoid persecutions. During that time the convent had its great period with more than 100 nuns. During the rebellion against the Turks in 1821 the convent was destroyed, the nuns murdered and its landed property placed under Gouvernetou Monastery, where it still belongs. It was rebuilt in about 1840 but was destroyed again during the rebellion in 1866. The scientist Vittorio Simonelli visited Crete in 1893. Through his report we get a vivid description of the conditions in Korakies We rode up the slopes north of the Souda bay and approached the village of Korakies, situated on the Akrotiri plateau. To every intact house there are at least ten ruined - a typical example of the Turkish way of upholding law and order in Crete. But we also had a great example of the local people's hospitality, as everyone wanted us to spend the hot midday hours in precisely their home and to eat staka - a mixture of flour and boiled milk, which can be quite tasty, if you have got nothing else. The convent was rebuilt once more. At the end of the 19th century one of the nuns lived for a longer period of time with the English ambassadors wife in Athens, where she was taught embroidery. Since then the convent has been well-known for its beautiful embroideries, which can still be seen in its small museum and be bought in its shop.                                             Sponsors area   houses for sale Offer: High quality houses for sale near to Agia Marina beach in Chania from 123.000 euro  ...more

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