sentences:  Near the village, three km to the north, are the ruins of the ancient Greek city Lato which was noted as one of the most powerful Dorian towns in Crete, with two acropoleis.The oldest settlement in the Kritsa area, on the steep rocky hill south of the village named "Kastellos", dates back to the 12–13th century BC (Late Minoan IIIC).Lato is thought to may have been founded when Kastellos was abandoned.