Agia Roumeli

Agia Roumeli is built upon the ruins of the ancient town Tarra. Many ancient authors have made reference to Tarra, as despite being small, it had its own currency, which on the one side depicted the head of a wild goat and arrows and a bee on the other.

One can still encounter the ruins of the ancient temple of Apollo, on which the old Christian church had been founded (walls 3m. in height and mosaic floors are preserved) and which was later transformed into the small temple of Virgin Mary.

The coast of the Tarra until about 365A.D. had nothing in common with the one existing today, as it was then that the land was abruptly made about 4 meters higher along the coast of Sfakia.

The findings of the ancient town of Tarra are exhibited in the Archeological Museum of Chania.