Agioi Deka ruins of Gortys. There is a local archaeological museum containing finds from the area. Other archaeological remains include the "Praetorium" located between Agioi Deka and Gortys, the tombs of Agioi Deka and the old church in the centre of the old village. The name of the village means Ten Saints, referring to the ten Martyrs of Crete (Agathopus, Basilides, Gelasius, Evaristus, Eunician, Euporus, Zoticus, Theodulus, Saturninus, and either Cleomenes or Mobius or Pompeius) who martyred there in 250 AD during the religious persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius. At the site of their martyrdom stands a 12th-century church. Agioi Deka
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