Riza

Municipal district of Ierapetra, with the settlements of Kaimenos and Zourna.

Kaimenos means burned, and it was burned by the Turks, by the Saracens and by the Germans. In 1943 the men of Risa and the neighbouring villages were arrested by the Germans and executed next to the church of Timios Stayros (Holy Crucifix) The 14th of September is sacred to their memory.