Category: Town-Village
Prefecture: Rethymno
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After 30 min driving from Rethimno town and after a small stop at the new “Potami” dam, you reach the small picturesque village of “Pantanassa”, which is located in the Amari area and west of the Psiloritis Mountains. Here you can meet local people, still enjoying the traditional Cretan way of living and enjoy their hospitality.

The route goes: Rethimnon - Prasies - Filaki - Voleones - Pantanassa. Just before entering the village, on the road, is the two-aisled Byzantine church of Agios Ioannis and Agia Triada.

The reddish loose sediments occurring around the Pantanassa village are of the few which were deposited as sediments on the land of Crete thousands years ago. They consist of loose sand, conglomerates, clay and thin layers of lignite on top, and are referred to as the Pantanassa formation.

The plethora of the data collected from these rocks have helped us, and continue to help us, to understand this distant period.

The beautiful gorge of Patsos occurs west of Pantanassa. It is one of the nicest gorges of Crete with lots of water and rich vegetation. A small cavity in the heart of the gorge was used during Minoan times for worshipping Kranaios Hermes, and continues in use today as a cave-chapel for Agios Antonios.