Church of St. Paraskevi

In the village of Episkopi, in the hills of the Heraklion region, the Church of St. Paraskevi holds centuries of devotion within its walls. Excavations carried out between 1972 and 1998 revealed that its painted decoration has layers: beneath fifteenth-century frescoes, restorers found an earlier cycle of wall paintings dating to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Later restoration work focused on preserving the Byzantine murals, among them paintings from the end of the fourteenth century. Standing inside, you sense how each generation of worshippers added to and cared for this sacred space.