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Sights - Chania Prefecture |
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The Agios Pavlos church |
| On the beach - 4 km
east of Agia Roumeli (the mouth of the Samaria Gorge) - lies one of the
oldest church in Crete, the Agios Pavlos church,
which
was built by the Cretan saint
Ioannis
Xenos, who worked
at the end of the 10th century
and
the
beginning
of
the 11th.
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| The church was built in memory of St. Paul the Apostle's stay in the area. |
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The church is cruciform with a dome and still has remains of frescoes from the 13th century. They are, however, rather damaged owing to the exposed position of the church along the sea. | ||
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