The Monastery of Agios Ioannis Prodoromos in Korakies in Akrotiri, was built during the late Byzantine period. It operated continuously until 1821, till the beginning of the revolution that marked its destruction by the Ottomans. It reopened in 1866 and in 1897 it participated actively in the liberation of the revolutionaries. Today a few nuns live there, but they retain their spirituality and splendor of this historic monastery.
The headquarters Venizelos / Therisos Movement Headquarters
So called the headquarters of the Revolutionary Assembly in 1905, in Therisos, which organized the homonymous revolution against the authoritarian rule of the High Commissioner George. Nowadays, the building has been converted into a museum for the exposition of weapons, objects from that period and evidence of the revolutionary action of Eleftherios Venizelos.