After 3 km along the road from Chania city to Souda port, west Crete, come to a turning to the right which leads to the Chrysopigi or Chrisopigi Monastery (or Zoodochos Pigi, ‘life-receiving spring’), consisting of  three-aisled church surrounded by a wall.

The Chartophilakas family founded the monastery of Chrysopigi in the sixteenth century. The original section is in the middle of the church. The Turks entered the monastery on Easter Day of 1821 and killed all the monks. Today it is a convent with several nuns living there.

The complex of the monastery has an elongated rectangle shape with its temple in the center. The nuns' cells and the other buildings are built around the temple and their outer sides form a fortification wall. In the northern part of the wall there is the arched gate of the monastery.

Over the centuries the monastery has experienced periods of booms and declines. It suffered many attacks and severe damages from the Turkish and German conquerors of Crete. The monastery since 1976 operates as a female nunnery.

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