Melanes is a small village, but the richest one in tradition and legends. It is located in a beautiful valley full of olive and fruit trees, just a breath away from the main town, around 8 km. The valley has taken its name from its black soil ('Melanes' means 'black'). In the Melanes’ valley, also are the villages of Kournochori and Agioi Apostoloi. At Kournochori you will find the Frangopoulos tower-house. The tower reminds us that the region was one of the most important fiefs of the island. Leaving Melanes, our route takes us to Flerio, also known as 'Ellinas' ('Greek'). There you will find the ''Kouros''. The statue was lying on the ground of an ancient quarry since the 7th century BC and represents a person, (its sex is not defined), which measures 6,40metres, and now lays in the corner of an orchard, which is under the exclusive protection of the Kondylis family. The statue is 200 years older than Acropolis in the city of Athens. Another monument worth seeing in Melanes, is the temple of the Jesuit Monks, in the region of Kalamitsia, in a magic location in the countryside. A monk of the temple named R. Sauger, built it in the 17th century, in a way that nobody can build it the same. Pigeon''s houses, orchards, small waterfalls and a beautiful church behind it, surround the temple. The ground of the area, was famous for its fertility since antiquity, but also for the marble hidden in it.
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