This time, the women of Agios Ioannis. Pashley remarked on the beauty of a young woman from that village (R. Pashley: Travels in Crete, 1837). The first picture shows Ioanna and Popi fetching water. In the second the young girls (Despina, Evangelia, Georgia, Evangelia and Krisoula) are posing with t...

In the late 70´s my husband and I spent a year in the village of Agios Ioannis in Sfakia. Not many people live in the village today, but we have our memories - and a lot of pictures. One picture shows the extent of the village in 1978-79, from above, looking west. At that time Agios Ioannis had a to...