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The Patsos is a small wooded village (30km southeast from Rethimnon on a right exit at Filaki of the Amari Valley - Gerakari road) of the former province of Amari. Now is the Municipal District of Rethymno Sivritou.
Located near the foot of the hill Soros, at an altitude of 490 meters, and 14 km far from the town of Spili. Around are the villages: Karines, Spili, Gerakari. On the way from Rethymnon we meet the settlement Prasses, Potamoi (with the homonym dam), the Voliones and Pantanassa.
It has rich vegetation and produces all kinds of good quality products such as Olive oil, walnuts, cherries, fruit, citrus. All vegetation and crops are due to the many sources of water available. Patsos has good quality water throughout the year.Also, visitors can cross the path that has been designed from the village to Patsos gorge and to the Agios Antonios cave within the gorge.The Gorge of Patsos is 3km far from the settlement Patsos and is a good choice for nature lovers. You can enjoy the natural scenery of the area and have lunch, if desired, to restaurants that are within the village and at the Gorge area.
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.
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