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Dreamlike view

coffee break

Lunch break in this tavern with homemade grapefruit lemonade

good alternative to the federal highway

In the evening you can watch a beautiful sunset here.

Tourist attraction, across the street is a parking lot where buses stop and drinks and souvenirs are sold. But it is actually very impressive, a beautiful beach and many people daringly climb up the rocks, some with children, one can only wonder. According to legend, Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of beauty and love, rose from a shell at this point, in which she was washed up on this very beach during a storm. The gigantic rock formations at this point also appear in another, slightly more recent legend, according to which the rock formations were heaved to this point by the Byzantine hero Digenis Akritas to invade the Saracens from the north of the Arabian Peninsula (7th-10th centuries). keep away. The name Petra tou Romiou (Greek 'rock of the Greeks') comes from this very hero.

Panagia Odegitria is a large beautiful chapel dating from around the 12th and 13th centuries AD. Known today as Panagia i Katholiki, until the 19th century it was known as Panagia i Chrysopolitissa as well as Panagia i Afroditissa because it is very close to the ancient sanctuary of the goddess Aphrodite. Originally the church was dedicated to Saint Therapondas, martyr and bishop of Cyprus.

Don’t miss the bath in the river at the bridge, either before climbing or after the great descent