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Vosakou Monastery

Χελιανά, Italy

Vosakou Monastery

The Vosakou Monastery (Greek: Μονή Βωσάκου), also known as the Monastery of Timios Stavros (Μονή Τίμιος Σταυρός), is a Greek Orthodox former monastery, now church, situated in Mylopotamos, in the Rethymno region in north-central Crete, Greece. The monastery is approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) eas

t of the city of Rethymno and is built on the north slope of a plateau in the Tallaia mountains. Established in the 17th century and abandoned in the 1960s, works to renovate the structure commenced in 1998.

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