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Apezanon Monastery is south of Mires, is 63km south of Heraklion city.

The monastery of Agios Antonios or Apezanon is located in Messara area, on a plateau overlooking the Libyan Sea in southern Crete.

Also known as Apezona Monastery, this is the largest of the historical monasteries of the Asterousia Mountains. Tradition has it that it was founded by the monks of Agios Antonios in Agiofarango Gorge. It is a Venetian building of the fortress type, and was destroyed by the Turks in 1827.