Menetes is the largest village of Karpathos at a distance of 8 km from the town of Karpathos.

Together with the settlements of Garden Afiartis, St. John Afiartis and Lakki, the villages of Stavri, Skopi, Exiles, Krithares and Vroutsas and the holiday settlements of Ammoopi and Afiartis, they form the Local Community of Menetes of the Municipality of Karpathos, which belongs to the South Aegean Region.

The village is built in the south of the island at an altitude of 315 m above sea level on the northern slope of Mount Profitis Elias. It consists of 450 houses built close to each other, most of them in neoclassical style and has 662 permanent residents (according to the 2011 census).

Characteristic of the village is the large church of Panagia, with its carved, unique wooden temple, built on the impressive Holy Rock. From the courtyard of the church you can see the whole village in front of you and from above you have a unique view of the capital of Karpathos, Pigadia.

During the dark centuries of foreign invasions, Menetes has been a stronghold of resistance against every conqueror, and its inhabitants have always been pioneers in the liberation struggles and a symbol of patriotism and libertarianism.

The inhabitants of Meneta were the first of the Aegean people who took the initiative to convene in 1912 in Athens a Pan-Aegeopolitical Conference on the fate of the Aegean islands. They were also among the pioneers of the founding of the Athens Labour Centre, headed by Antonis Skordaras. With the declaration of war by Italy on Greece in 1940, the Dodecanese of Athens formed a regiment of volunteers, in which the Menedians of Attica participated in large numbers.

Just outside the village is the chapel of Agios Mamma, a church with a special architecture and frescoes dating back to 1300. Menetes also houses the island’s Folklore Museum, with collections of archaeological finds, pottery, agricultural tools and sculptures. At the top impressively stands the chapel of Agios Spyridon.