Agios Nikolaos Gorge in Zaros

This is the most impressive gorge in central Crete, as regards both vegetation and geomorphology.

The gorge is one of the richest ecosystems in Greece and was even home to endemic Cretan wild goats until the turn of the 20th century.

Apart from its plant and animal life, however, the gorge also contains impressive geological features, in a rare landscape of imposing rock formations and beautiful ravines.

The ecological and geomorphological characteristics of the gorge, combined with its historical churches of Agios Nikolaos, Agios Minas and Agios Euthymios and the ruins of the Roman Aqueduct at the spot known as Sterna, which supplied ancient Gortyn with water, make it an important natural monument of Crete.

Photo: Nikolakakis,M. / Natural History Museum of Crete – University of Crete

Information: Region of Crete