Spili village - Rethymno

Spili is a mountainous, traditional village located 30 km SE of Rethymnon city. It was the capital of the municipality of Agios Vasilios in the prefecture of Rethymnon, while it used to be the capital of the homonymous province.

 It is the seat of the Holy Metropolis of Lambi, Sivritos and Sfakia and of the Association of Scientists of the Municipality of Lambi. Spili is built amphitheatrically in the center of the prefecture on a western slope of mountain Kedros, which is a southwest extension of Psiloritis, at an altitude of 430 m, which supplies its springs with running waters. In the village square there are tall centuries-old plane trees and a fountain with 25 lion-headed taps, from whose mouths water flows