Agios Panteleimonas

This village Agios Thomas belongs to the municipality of Aghia Varvara and lies at 530 m above sea level. It is 30 km away from Heraklion and has a panoramic view over the whole area to the SE of Aghia Varvara. 

The village is very old and the first reference we have of it, is in a document of 1371, where it is quoted as a feudal property of Petrus de Medio, and again in a document dated 1380.

The village owes its name to the tripartite domed church, which still preserves part of its original wall paintings.

There are a great many caves and cisterns cut out of the rock in the area; the caves were used as graves. The village of Aghios Thomas boasts of two great personalities born there: Kirikas Chairetis Kalamaras and the empirical doctor and fighter Logios, born in 1771.