Kamares (Crete)

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Kamares
Τοπική Κοινότητα Καμαρών (Καμάρες)
Kamares (Crete) (Greece)
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Basic data
Country GreeceGreece Greece
region Crete
Regional district Heraklion
local community Festos
Geographic coordinates 35 ° 9 ′  N , 24 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 9 ′  N , 24 ° 49 ′  E
Height above d. M. 580  m
Residents 331 (2011)
LAU-1 code no. 91250401

Kamares ( Greek Καμάρες ( f. Pl. )) Is a place in the south of the Greek island of Crete on the southern slope of the Psiloritis Mountains and belongs to the municipality of Tymbaki in the municipality of Festos . The Kamares Cave ( Greek Σπήλαιο Καμαρών ) is located above Kamares at an altitude of 1525 meters . During excavations, Minoan pottery was found here, which is called Kamares ware after the place where it was found .

history

During the Venetian times the place was called Camares . For the year 1583 a population of 93 has been handed down. During the Second World War , the village was destroyed by the Wehrmacht , as the Greek resistance fighters were hiding here.

From 1925 until the municipal reform in 1997, the place formed an independent rural municipality (Κοινότητα Καμαρών Kinotita Kamaron ).

tourism

In Kamares there are several small guesthouses in which nature lovers in particular book. From here you can climb the 2,456 meter high Timios Stavros , a two-day hike is also popular, where you first visit the Kamares cave and spend the night on the Kolita Alm. There are four gorges in the area around Kamares:

  • the Great Gorge ( Greek Μεγάλο Φαράγγι )
  • the Foulo Gorge
  • the Spiliara Gorge
  • the Sfaka Gorge

The churches in the village are dedicated to Our Lady and Saint George . On July 23, the holiday of St. George is celebrated in the village.

Minoan finds

In 1890 a farmer from Kamares handed over the Ephor of Crete Josef Hatzidakis pottery fragments of a high quality ceramic which had not been documented in Crete and which he had collected in the Kamares cave. It was for this reason that Antonio Taramelli visited Kamares in 1894. In addition to the cave above the village, the farmers of Kamares, southwest of the village, showed him a Minoan cemetery with seven Tholos graves, four of which Taramelli examined. They had a diameter between 2 meters and 2.60 meters and a height between 1.60 meters and 2 meters. A 1 meter to 1.40 meter long dromos led to the entrances facing east . The dead were placed in the grave with their heads facing west and feet facing east. From the found pottery shards, Taramelli suspected that the cemetery was used until the Mycenaean period . West of Kamares he discovered in the valley Kavmenis Mitato ( Greek Καυμένης μιτάτο ) pottery shards and concluded that there was an ancient settlement here.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the 2011 census. ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Excel ; 2.6 MB) National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ)
  2. ↑ Kamares municipality. ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. eetaa.gr @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web3.eetaa.gr
  3. ↑ Eberhard Fohrer: Crete . Erlangen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89953-453-5 , p. 252
  4. ↑ Klaus Bötig, Carmen Galenschovski: Baedeker Allianz travel guide Crete . 10th edition. Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-8297-1297-2 , p. 195
  5. ^ Antonio Taramelli: Cretan Expedition. A visit to the grotto of Camares on Mount Ida . In: American Journal of Archeology , Second Series, Volume 5, Norwood 1901, p. 437 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )