page_title: Vosakou Monastery
hierarchical_section_title: Vosakou Monastery
caption_attribution_description: English: Vossakos MonasteryPortuguês: Vossakos Monastery
context_page_description: The Vosakou Monastery is a 17th-century monastery situated in the Mylopotamos region of the Rethymno regional unit in north-central Crete. The monastery is roughly 50 km east of Rethymno and is built on the north slope of a plateau in the Tallaia mountains. Its name stands for the ox-fold, composed from the Greek words βούς and σηκός.
context_section_description: The Vosakou Monastery (Greek: Μονή Βωσάκου also misspelled as Βοσάκου) is a 17th-century monastery situated in the Mylopotamos region of the Rethymno regional unit in north-central Crete. The monastery is roughly 50 km east of Rethymno and is built on the north slope of a plateau in the Tallaia mountains. Its name stands for the ox-fold, composed from the Greek words βούς (ox) and σηκός (fold) (σακός in the Doric Greek dialect).
caption: General view of the Vossakou monastery with the imposing cypress-tree
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