Galata Attractions
There are four painted churches in and around the village of Galata. The church of Agios Sozomenos, dating from the early 16th century, retains a complete series of frescoes in the post-Byzantine style. The church of Archangelos Michail is a timber-roofed chapel and is completely painted in the post-Byzantine style. Nearby is the larger church of Panagia Podithou, which once belonged to a monastery. It was erected in 1502, and its paintings are of the Italo-Byzantine style. The small church of Agia Paraskevi, on the old Kakopetria-Galata Road has murals dating to 1514.
Archangel Michael Church
Just below the village of Galata is Panayia Theotokos or Archangel Michael church. Inside the door is a painting of Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist and below them the donors who were, according to the inscription, members of the Zacharia family and probably Venetian nobility. There are unusually detailed portraits of the donors. On the upper walls is the New Testament cycle and on the lower walls, as usual, the individual saints.
