The ruins of Lató, an ancient town founded in the 8C BC, have been excavated since 1967. They are scattered among a jumble of grey rocks in a superb setting. There are traces of a sanctuary and of a cistern marking the centre of the agora; steps leading up to what was a prytaneion (3C BC), where the town's magistrates met; the foundations of a little temple of Apollo (4C-3C BC) on a terrace.

Zeus is said to be entombed inside this mountain (811m), where votive offerings (given in fulfillment of a vow) from a Minoan sanctuary have been found. Its silhouette is thought to resemble the profile of a sleeping man, whom popular belief claims to be Zeus himself. From the top, crowned by a pilgrimage church at the edge of a steep cliff, there is a vast panorama over Iráklio and the sea to the north, Mount Díkti to the east, and Mount Ida to the west.

Panagía Kerá is a charming white church built in the 13C (at the beginning of the Venetian occupation) on a small scale but well proportioned; it has a nave and two aisles terminating in apses. The church contains a remarkable series of 14C and 15C frescoes, both sophisticated and naïve, in vivid colours.

Recent excavations have uncovered the impressive ruins of the praetorium, a huge building that was both an administrative seat for the province and the Governor's residence. It was built of brick under Trajan in the 2C, then reconstructed in the 4C following an earthquake. Identifiable areas include a vast chamber (basilica), the baths, and the courtyard of a temple surrounded by a portico. The drums of its columns are lying beside the bases. Several damaged statues have been recovered.