Vosakou Monastery

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The Vosakou Monastery ( also misspelled as Βοσάκου) is a 17th-century monastery situated in the Mylopotamos region of the Rethymno regional unit in north-central Crete. The monastery is roughly 50 km east of Rethymno and is built on the north slope of a plateau in the Tallaia mountains.Κώστας Γιαπιτζόγλου. Οδοιπορικό: Η μονή Βωσάκου, Κρητικό Πανόραμα, τεύχος 10, σελ. 86-105, 2005. Its name stands for the ox-fold, composed from the Greek words βούς (ox) and σηκός (fold) (σακός in the Doric Greek dialect). Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
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