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Gonia Monastery on Spatha Peninsula
Gonia Monastery on Spatha Peninsula
The icons of the Cretan School (15C to 17C) are famous. The artists of the Cretan School painted not only in Crete, but also in several other places including the islands, the major centres of Orthodox religion like Russia, as well as in Venice itself. Collections of precious icons are kept in some places like the Moni Gonia, in Kissamos, and the Agia Ekaterini, in Iraklion, as well as in several monasteries and churches all over Crete. Icons painted by Cretan painters can also be seen in many other places outside Crete, as in Patmos, Athos, Thessaloniki, and Russia.

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The Byzantine church of Agia Ekaterini (circa 1555) in Iraklion
The Byzantine church of Agia Ekaterini (circa 1555) in Iraklion
Gonia Monastery on Spatha Peninsula
Gonia Monastery on Spatha Peninsula