The Holy Metochi of the Transfiguration of Christ the Savior and Saint Gideon (Metochi of the Karakallos Monastery of Mount Athos) is located on the top of a low elevation in the village of Margarites. The church of the stock, dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ the Savior, is single-aisled, frescoed, although today the frescoes are not visible and dates back to the Venetian period. On the floor of the church there is a tomb on the cover plate of which the coat of arms of the Dandola family, a prominent Venetian family connected to the area of Margarita, can be seen in relief. The church was renovated in the 18th century, as stated in an inscription above its door.
According to written sources, already from the beginning of the 18th c. is the Metohi of the Caracalla Monastery of Mount Athos, while from 1797 and for six years the Holy Martyr Gideon resided in Metohi.
Of the old facilities around the temple, only two ground-floor buildings from the 18th – 19th centuries survive, while new stone buildings were built at the beginning of the 21st century, when the metochi was reconstituted and expanded.
