The small monastery of Michael Archangel is located at position Finikias, over the stream that forms the beautiful palm wood of Souda. Phoenix (Finikas), as it is known, was a dependency of the monastery Prophet Elias in Roustika and today belongs to the parish of Sellia.
Cretan countryside is full of icon shrines; From the edges of the roads to the most unexpected places, such as beaches or mountains, gorges and woods. It is estimated that nowhere in the world there are so many religious shrines as in Crete. Most people mistakenly believe that all shrines are there to commemorate a fatal accident. However, the reality is very different for the shrines we meet in places other than the roads (where indeed, most of them are due to accidents).
In the cemetery of Stamni village, we meet the double aisled church dedicated to Saint Vlassios. The north aisle bears traces of frescoes and was built in the Venetian Era, while the south aisle and west facade was built in the 19th century.
The church of Saint Anthony at Keramoutsi, province Malevizi, is a small single-nave church with its upper part being restored with cement. The surviving lower part bears frescoes of Venetian rule in poor condition.
On the road connecting the settelments Galifa and Episkopi we meet a small single-room vaulted church dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ. The temple dates back from the 14th century and its interior bears frescoes in poor condition.
The wider area of Voritsi, province Pediada, was an important center of ascetism especially during the Venetian period. One of the most important monasteries was that of Saint George Kavos (Agios Georgios), which was built on a site with panoramic view. Today one can see the remains of cells and the well preserved church, which has a nave intersected by another.
Every year, on May 8, the day of Saint John the Theologian, crowds of believers from all over Crete arrive at the small village Marmaketo, at Lasithi Plateau, to participate at the annual miracle of Marmaketo. At the main church of St. John the Theologian, on Good Friday, starts begins a customary process that ends at the feast day of St. John: On Good Friday, morning, the women of Marmaketo gather some wild orchids, called Easter flowers.
At the entrance of the picturesque village Aitania,.at Pediada province, Heraklion, on the way from village Episkopi we meet the picturesque church of Panagia Kardiotissa. The church is cemeterial and is dedicated to the Birth of the Virgin. It is a very picturesque church, of the many that adorn the wider region of Episkopi, where we meet many Byzantine churches.