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Places near Kastelos

There are not restaurants or any organized facility at the area, so you have to take care for your supplies (as water, food etc). The area is ideal for the lovers of peace and quietness, because this beach has no massive tourism and is known only by the locals. In order to access the beach, as you drive from Iraklion to Rethymno, just 1 km after
Fodele beach
, turn right and you drive for another 2 kms on a dirt road. Sisses village is located 6km west of the beach.

The church of Panagia in Fodele is dedicated to the Presentation of Virgin Mary and is almost 1 km northwest of the village on the road leading to the museum of El Greco.
The church is a Byzantine building of the 11th century, which has been built up on the half of an older temple of the 6th century which existed on the spot and was an early Christian basilica. The interior of the church has two layers of frescoes, the oldest dating back to the 11th century and the youngest according to the inscription in 1323. Architectural the temple is cruciform with a dome, without narthex, although it is based in Helladic architecture it has several structural and decorative elements that refer to the Constantinople architecture.