Riding to Agia Marina Monastery

The monastery of Agia Marina is located 500m south of the village of Voni in Heraklion. The monastery was founded in 1895 by John Kaparounakis at the side where it is said that he drank water from a spring and that helped him miraculously recover from a serious disease.

There was already a small chapel at the point, but was owned by a Turk, Hosref Pasha, who did not want to allow the construction of the monastery.