Virgin Monastery Koudouma

Koudoumas name probably derives from the founder of the monastery. Indeed, a Venetian document of 1280 mentions the surname Cudhumano, possibly related to Koudoumas. The monastery in its present form was built in 1870 by the monks Parthenios and Eumenios Charitakis, on the site of the ruined monastery. The monastery was abandoned till then, like all seaside monasteries of Crete, because of the frequent pirate raids on the coasts of Crete in the 15th century.

Monastery Koudoumas houses the icon of Our Lady of Kykkos of Dexiokratousa, found in the house of Ali Pasha in Ioannina and donated to the monastery by Eleni Skandalaki in 1957. Also, a chapel houses the icon of the Visitation, which is connected to a miracle of 1940.