In the village of Rodia, set in the hills of the Gazi district west of Heraklion, stands a Byzantine mansion complex that speaks of Crete's middle era. This was a rural estate of some standing, the kind of country residence where prosperous families of the period lived and worked their land. The surrounding community spreads across twenty-one square kilometres and embraces several smaller villages, monasteries and hamlets, a landscape of olive groves and old stone. The villa remains a quiet monument to that world, rewarding travelers who venture beyond the city into the Cretan countryside.
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