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Tzermiado
The capital of the province of Lasithi. It is built at the south foot of Selena and it was also built at the beginning of the 15th century. Several items from the Middle Minoan Period have been found in this area.
East of Tzermiado, the Trapeza Cave is located, which is thought to be one of the oldest cave of worship in the Plateau. It was first used as a residence place and later, when its east side was inhabited, Kastelo hill, it became a place for burial and worship. The excavations revealed important findings from many eras, from the Neolithic up to the Byzantine Period, something that indicates that it was still used for worship, even Dictean Cave took its place.
North of Tzermiado, on a height of 1100 m, on a rock called Karfi, where we get by hiking or by donkeys, there was a Late Minoan settlement. It was created by Eteokrites during the raids of the Dorians against Crete. It remained at this high and inaccessible location from 1150 until 1100 BC. The inhabitants, living away from the plain, they built their settlements in the Minoan order they remembered, hoping that some day they would return to their own home land.
At the highest location of this area, there was a sanctum with an altar, where many items of worship were discovered as well as statuettes in a position of praying, with the hands upwards.
Down the rock, they had built vaulted tombs. For about one and a half century, they preserved a Minoan way of life that had disappeared in lower areas. However, we must go down to Karfi for another reason.
The view of the landascape is marvelous. Northwestward, the entire province of Pediada (valley) lies before you. You can see the Cretan Sea at far end, and the weather conditions allow it, you can see the Cyclades. South, there is the peaceful Plateau of Lasithi. The tranquility of the landscape is disturbed by the white cyclic movement of the windmills that rise in this natural panorama
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