Built in the 10^th century AD in a deep green gorge, seven kilometers west of Vartholomio, the Monastery of Agia Eleousa has managed to protect itself against the pirate attacks and to be preserved up today. In fact, the pirates looted the monastery once, but the monks and the believers of the area built around it tall walls with crenellations to protect themselves. Nowadays, the monastery is tended by two nuns.