Agios Nectarios is a chapel on the eastern outskirts of Gonia
alongside the Old National Road between Rethymno and Hania. From
the chapel as well as Gonia, there is a good wiew over the inland
against Krioneritis in southwest and the White mountains in the
west.
Gonia is the seat of the Municipality of Nikiforos Fokas. It is
situated on a hill affording a panoramic view, 11km along the old
national road from Rethymnon to Hania via Atsipopoulo and
Prines.
Gonia is mentioned in Venetian censuses carried out by Barozzi
(1577) and Kastrofilakas (1583) and Vasilikatas (1630), as well as
in the Ottoman census of 1671 and the Egyptian one of 1834. In the
1881 and 1900 censuses it is ascribed to the Municipality of
Atsipopoulo, while in 1920 it is named as the seat of its own
agricultural municipality; eight years later it was the seat of a
community.
Today Gonia has a population of 400 and is the seat of the
Municipality of Nikiforos Fokas. It is in the same ward as the
village of Agios Andreas, a beautiful historic settlement
containing fine examples of traditional architecture.
Information about Gonia from
http://www.interkriti.org/nikfokas
Take a trip to Gonia, park your car around the main square, and
walk through the narrow streets.
Please lock the box well and hide it as found.
Gonia main square:
