The Voskopoulas Cave is located on the Nidas plateau at an altitude of 1,538 m and where Dias or Zeus, the father of the gods was born. His mother, Rhea, hid her new born son in the cave to save him from his father, Cronos, who devoured his children because he was afraid that one of them would usurp his power. Hidden in the cave he was fed milk by the goat Amalthea and when he cried the Kourites thumped their copper shields to disguise his crying sounds.

The combination of legend and fact made this cave and Ideon Andron important religious sites in ancient, Minoan and Roman times.
Excavations started in 1885 by Federico Halbherr revealed the sacredness of the cave.