"Rooted" at the foot of Mount Dikti mountains at an altitude of 540 meters, is located in the historic village of root. The inventoried 174 1881 inhabitants, the 1920 217 and 2001 had 40 residents. Settlement keeps from the period of Venetian rule, built in a strategic location, martyred many times in its history and now the few residents left principally engaged in livestock farming and honey production.
East of the village in Sfakoyra location is the historical Church of the Holy Cross. To that point were executions of locals demanding that Germans, the war memorial to witness the tragic past.
The Sarakinoi left and they made their mark in the region, after his Poor next-door village, a few hundred meters from the root, in accordance with the tradition got its name from the owner of the Inn, which were burning and looting Arab pirates systematically named after the Inn owner, which burned and systematically looting Arab pirates.
