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Kapsa Monastery

Commune of Perivolakia, Greece

The Kapsa Monastery (Moni Kapsa), officially the Monastery of Agios Ioannis Kapsa, is a Greek Orthodox monastery situated between the villages of Makrys Gialos and Sitia in the west and Goudouras and Ierapetra in the east, on the southeast coast of Crete, Greece. It is built on a steep, rocky mountainside near the exit of the Perivolakia gorge, which overlooks the Libyan Sea. The Kapsa Monastery functions as a monastery for male monks.

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