According to a legend, a shepherd from Axos found one day on one of the slopes of Psiloreitis an icon depicting Saint John the Baptist.

This inexplicable phenomenon was considered to be an order from the heavens, to build there a temple dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.

In 1822, when the Anogians were fighting the Turks in Messara, Serif Pasha found the village empty and put it to the torch.

The barren soil, the harsh winters, the frequent revolts and the constant purges from the conquerors contributed to the primitive living conditions, to the great poverty and the lack of even the most basic of comforts.

The French historian Victor Bérard (1897) during his journeys in Crete, dedicated but a few lines for the village of Anogia, where with a raw and laconic way describes the hopeless living conditions of the time: “The village Anogia, resembles the outposts on the remote peaks of old, where men and animals live together in miserable hovels”.

He wrote: “Anogian women are beautiful, with red cheeks and faces that are lit up by eyes black and shiny, like agate.

In recent years, the Yakinthia (Hyacinthia) cultural festival is held at an altitude of 1200m in the Nida Plateau, south of Anogeia.

In 1946, the state honored Anogia with the award of the War Cross first class for the disasters which affected and for their heroism.