Church Agia Mavri Αγία Μαύρη — Attraction in Koilani

It is a small chapel dedicated to St Mauri and her husband St Timothy. Visitors are free to enter inside.

Following the stairs above the chapel there is a hole in the mountain that extends till the other side and which according to the legends, St Mauri miraculously created and passed through it in order to escape from her persecutors.

It is a quiet and peaceful place where visitors are enjoy the benefits of both religion and nature. Next to the chapel grows the second oldest tree of the island and below that river Krios flows.

There is a also a restaurant outside the church which is open during the holiday months and where visitors can rest, buy food and drinks as well...

Agia Mauri is an excellent place to enjoy your weekend as there are plenty areas for morning coffee or lounch. Additional you will have the chance to taste their local traditional suits as well as the local wine. According to tradition, Agia Mavri was a young woman living in Koilani, who was in love with Timotheos. Their parents ,however, were not supportive of their love, so the young couple decided to run away together on the he wedding eve and hide in a cave in the forest, at the area where the...

Worth a visit. I liked the fact that there was a sign that explained something about the church...