Mount Ida, known variously as
Idha,
Ídhi,
Idi,
Ita and now
Psiloritis (, "high mountain"), at a height of 2,456 m (8,057 feet), is the highest
mountain on
Crete. Located in the
Rethymno regional unit, it was sacred to the
Greek Titaness Rhea, and on its slopes lies one of the
caves,
Idaion Andron, in which, according to legend,
Zeus was born. Its summit (
Timios Stavros) has the highest
topographic prominence in Greece.