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Axos
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The village is very fertile with running water (in the middle of the village there is a fountain) and excellent climate. Built beneath the ancient city Axo or Oaxo.
The Oaxos was built on the slopes of the hill, at successive levels (terraces) with well fortified citadel. Harbor was the Astali, bay in Bali today. The city was rich and powerful. 'Ekove own coins which depicted the head of Apollo and of Artemis. Own currency and had to Roman times. Of the 46 churches of the Byzantine era, only nine still remain. East of the village, the road to Heraklion, in the middle deep valley, the ruins preserved wall known as "Teichio CF Axos" of 8 meters. Thought to be part of the aqueduct carrying water from source to reservoir Skafidia of Axos, from a distance of 3 km were found even naivete figurines, bronze mitra, shells, and a marble statue of the goddess Demeter. Many residents of Axos, chased by the Venetians, fled east, which created a new village, the HHIC Anogia or Xigkanogeia. |
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 The village is inhabited today by about 600 residents. In the village there are 7 thousand years of Byzantine churches around. You can admire the architecture of St. Irene, the beautiful frescoes in Saint John, the great temple in the Church of the Holy Cross, St. George, imikatestrameno Michael the Archangel, imikatestramenes also the churches of Agia Paraskevi and the Lord Jesus. Just outside the village by going to the Virgin Mary is Anogia Kavousani that the restored building and I can see the remains of magnificent frescoes. The churches are not all open so you must ask the key from the priest of the village. On the hill above the village are the remains of ancient acropolis "The Andrion" the temple of Aphrodite Astarte, Cyclopean walls and remains of several buildings. There are also a huge stone engraved passages from scriptures, laws likely |
