Two traditional houses in Chromonastiri

The first house is located on a plot of 216,01sq.m. with ground floor of 33,97sq.m. On the second one you can see Venetian and Osmanlian lineaments, as well as a Turkish bath that needs renovation. The second house is located on a plot of 92,35sq.m. with ground floor of 75,48sq.m. and 1 st floor of 51,19sq.m. A part of the first floor, is on an arch over the municipal road. All the houses need renovation.

The traditional hamlet of Chromonastiri is 11km (6,8miles) away from the city of Rethymno. It is a beautiful dorp, built at the roots of the mountain Vrisina and has population of 358. There are buildings with Venetian lineaments all around the village, but the most important is the famed “Villa Clodio”, a magnificent mansion that has been reconstructed and accommodates the army museum. Near Chromonastiri, you can see the “Panagia Kera”, an illustrated Byzantine church that has a cross shame with cupola, that is aged from the 11 th century A.D. Leaving from Chromonastiri, in distance of 1,5km (0,9 miles) southern of the village, we reach the abandoned village Mili, which in order to visit it, we must follow the path and go down in the gorge named mili as well, in what it is built.The name of the village is owed cause of a lot of watermills that contains and if we visit it, the rich vegetation and his picturesqueness will compensate us. After Mili, in left of the road, we meet the church Panagia Chalebi and the ruins of the monastery. Following the same road, we will be found, in the region Misiria and from there after 3km (1,9miles) again in the centre of city of Rethimno.

To the location “Perdiki Metohi” you see “Agios Eftychios” , another important church aged from the 11 th century as well. Chromonastiri, won the 1 st prize from the prefectorial government of Rethymno, in the 2007, for being the most organized hamlet of the whole province of Rethymno.