Chania Tourist Guides

11/08/2024

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Greek-speaking and Orthodox Christians, the Roums of Turkey are also known as the later Byzantines. Their presence on the shores of the Bosphorus, on the isl...

11/07/2024

Hello,

We are the licensed tour guides of Greece, and we are protesting against the Ministry of Tourism’s new bill, which is due to be signed into law today.

In Greece, licensed tour guides undergo rigorous training in public guide schools to ensure they provide accurate and engaging information to tourists.

This bill would allow tourists to be guided around some of Greece’s most treasured sites by individuals without a license—in other words, fake guides and unqualified people from anywhere in the world.

We ask that the Ministry of Tourism protect the unique experience for tourists in Greece and take action against illegal tours by unqualified individuals.

We ask that the Ministry of Tourism withdraw this bill.

Can we count on your support? Please sign the petition below

The Ministry of Tourism is recommending to the Parliament for approval a bill which attempts to "modernize" the profession of the tour guide. Among other things, the proposed definition of the tour guide limits his work to closed and enclosed spaces, despite the fact that the history, sights and cul...

29/02/2024

28/09/2022

21/06/2022

🌍 👉 Today is World Music Day! 🎶 🎹 🎶
Indeed, how would this world have been without music? Turn up the volume to your favorite song and welcome summer that officially starts today! 🥳 🤩 ⛱ 👙 🌞
🔎 Clay pyxis depicting a ritual musical scene with a male figure holding a seven-stringed instrument, a lyre or kithara. He has been interpreted as Orpheus, Apollo, or a simple musician. Birds, double axes, and horns of consecration frame the scene. Kalami, 1300-1250 BC. ΑΜCh, Π 2308

👉 Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Μουσικής σήμερα! 🎶 🎹 🎶

Αλήθεια, πώς θα ήταν ο κόσμος μας χωρίς μουσική; Βάλτε δυνατά το αγαπημένο σας τραγούδι και υποδεχτείτε το καλοκαίρι που σήμερα ξεκινάει και επίσημα! 🥳 🤩 ⛱ 👙 🌞

🔎 Πήλινη πυξίδα. Εικονίζεται τελετουργικό μουσικό δρώμενο, με ανδρική μορφή να κρατάει επτάχορδο όργανο, λύρα ή κιθάρα. Ο "κιθαρωδός", ερμηνεύεται ως Ορφέας, Απόλλωνας ή απλός μουσικός. Πτηνά, διπλοί πέλεκεις και κέρατα καθοσιώσεως πλαισιώνουν την παράσταση. Καλάμι, 1300-1250 π.Χ. ΑΜΧ, Π 2308.

🌍 👉 Today is World Music Day! 🎶 🎹 🎶

Indeed, how would this world have been without music? Turn up the volume to your favorite song and welcome summer that officially starts today! 🥳 🤩 ⛱ 👙 🌞

🔎 Clay pyxis depicting a ritual musical scene with a male figure holding a seven-stringed instrument, a lyre or kithara. He has been interpreted as Orpheus, Apollo, or a simple musician. Birds, double axes, and horns of consecration frame the scene. Kalami, 1300-1250 BC. ΑΜCh, Π 2308

19/04/2022

Σωματείο Διπλωματούχων Ξεναγών

14/02/2022

Ερωτευθείτε! (κάθε μέρα!) ❤️ 💘
📷 Σύμπλεγμα ειδωλίων (Έρωτας και Ψυχή), 1ος αι. π.Χ. ΑΜΧ, αρ. ευρ. Π10897

Fall in love! (every day!) ❤️ 💘
📷 Group of figurines (Eros and Psyche), 1st c. BC. AMch, inv. no. Π10897

13/02/2022

Did you know that from 100.000ratings all over the world by www.tasteatlas.com Greece was ranked 2nd best?And that among the most favorite dishes and products, a lot of them originate from Crete?Let us show you around and introduce you to all these delicacies of the island. One more reason to visit Crete!

11/02/2022

The sacrifice of a young girl and of several animals are among the unexpected finds of the ongoing excavation in the ancient Kydonia in Chania on the island of Crete! Some of us, the professional licensed guides, helped sort out the incredible objects. Join us on a walking tour in the old town and let us show you the secrets of our past and present!

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/08/preliminary-results-of-the-excavation-on-the-hill-of-kastelli-in-chania/?fbclid=IwAR368YLe3XJGrL-UwKGCF1v0vwKIvcwglJOkQx-VrGxwhukhzBf-YByAoZM

The area where the Mycenaean-era human sacrifice took place was likely a roofed hall, not an open space, according to the results.

06/02/2022

Η ‘ωραία αλεξανδρινή’! ❤️

📷 Πήλινο γυναικείο ειδώλιο, τέλος 4ου - αρχές 3ου αι. π.Χ. ΑΜΧ, αρ. ευρ. Π 6071

🔎 Από τη Συλλογή του μουσείου, η ‘ωραία αλεξανδρινή’ μας βρέθηκε σε έναν από τους θαλάμους του υπόγειου λαξευτού ταφικού μνημείου στην πόλη των Χανίων. Το έντονο μπλε που διατηρείται στο στεφάνι και το χρυσό στο κόσμημα του λαιμού, φωτίζουν τα χαριτωμένα και ήρεμα χαρακτηριστικά του προσώπου. Το ειδώλιο, κατασκευασμένο από φίνο λευκό πηλό, ήταν παραγωγή εργαστηρίου της Αλεξάνδρειας.
Πίσω, όμως, από αυτό το μοναδικής τέχνης αντικείμενο, κρύβεται μια καθημερινή, ανθρώπινη ιστορία. Ήταν ένα από τα κτερίσματα που συντρόφευσαν τη Σωσίμα που πέθανε λεχώνα, όπως μαρτυρεί η επιγραφή πάνω από την είσοδο του ταφικού της θαλάμου.

Να ήταν άραγε εξίσου όμορφη η Σωσίμα με την Αλεξανδρινή μας;

The ‘beautiful Alexandrian lady’! ❤️

📷 Terracotta female figurine, end of 4th - early 3rd c. BC. AMCh, inv. no. Π 6071

🔎 From the museum’s Collection, our ´beautiful Alexandrian lady´, was found in one of the burial chambers of an underground rock-cut funerary monument in the city of Chania. The bright blue color preserved in the wreath and the gold in the necklace, illuminate the graceful and serene facial features. The figurine, made of fine white clay, was produced by a workshop in Alexandria.
Behind, though, this exclusively crafted object lies an everyday, human story. It was one of the grave offerings that accompanied Sosima, who had died shortly after giving birth, as attested by the inscription at the entrance of her burial chamber.

Would Sosima have been as beautiful as our Alexandrian lady?

28/01/2022

White Mountains

Chania ❤
All seasons, all colours, all senses...

14/01/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXfBVNKqKRM

The land of endless summer has a big announcement to make.You may be hearing this for the first time. It may surprise you. But Greece, has a winter too! ...

18/12/2021

We would like to thank very much the archaeologist Dr. Elpida Hadjidaki for the excellent tour she gave us, the professional tourist guides, around the ongoing excavation of Phalasarna. It gave us a new perspective of this very important harbor on the west coast of Crete dated from the Hellenistic period, which was destroyed by the big earthquake of 365 A.D. It was a reviling experience to see and walk along the pier of the ancient port, which is located nowadays 6,6 meters above sea level. It would be a pleasure to show our guests the very well-built towers, which ones protected the port facilities, the remains of the town and the breathtaking landscape of Phalasarna.

05/12/2021

04/10/2021

📍Falasarna beach 🏖️ Crete island 🏝️..
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Falasarna (sometimes written as Phalasarna) is located on the West coast of Crete and, similarly to Elafonisi is popular with day trippers because of its stunning beaches and clear turquoise blue sea.

It consists of several sandy beaches of various length, all facing the West (which makes it a wonderful place to watch the sunset from). The sea is generally very clean and with lovely colours because of the sandy bottom.

If you are interested in archaeology you can also visit the remains of a fortified Hellenistic harbour. Because of a sudden uplift of the West of Crete 1500 years ago the harbour is now located inland.

Because there is a good area of flat fertile land running along the coast, a lot of greenhouses have been erected in the last 20 years or so and Falasarna, especially seen from above as you drive down the hill, is not as beautiful as it once was. But when you are on the beach you won't notice them anymore.

14/09/2021

The impressive Cave of Elephants in Chania!

It was discovered in 1999 by a diver-fisherman and it is half submerged in the sea.It was named after the finds (bones of elephants but also those of deers).
The bones belong to a yet unknown species which was named "elephas chaniensis" (after the town of Chania) and they are 50.000/60.000 years old.

Crete is full of surprises!

You can see more in https://www.grafasdiving.gr/en/caves/elephants-cave/Elephant Cave, CreteAt Cape Drepano of the Municipality of Apokoronas under the Red V...

22/06/2021

"Dear Chania Tourist Guides, the tour was excellent! Stavros has great knowledge and patience and on our next visit to Chania we will surely call him again. Thank you". We would like to thank these 3 lovely people from Israel that choosed one of our tour. We are looking forward to see you again!


#Σταύρος

11/06/2021

The maritime museum of Chania

31/05/2021

The Tourist Guides of Chania would like to welcome you for the season 2021 and wish you an excellent holiday in Crete!

17/05/2021

Dear Travelers,
Before you visit Greece we would like to inform you about us, the Licensed Tourist Guides.
In Greece the profession of Tourist Guide is regulated and protected by the Tourist Law. First of all for anyone to become a Tourist Guide has to attend and complete successfully the two years studies at the School of Tourist Guides. Then the professional license is issued by the Ministry of Tourism.
Therefore according to the Greek Law 710/77 guiding anywhere in Greece (on group or private tours - walking or organized by providing transportation - inside or outside the archaeological sites and museums - sites of cultural, religious, environmental heritage, culinary experience etc) IS PROHIBITED by anyone who IS NOT LICENSED and IS NOT BEARING the official badge.
Don’t be led astray and cheated in any way!
Trust the professionals for your tours in Greece

12/05/2021

Longing for some sea, sun and culture? Check the latest article on Crete by The Times, get inspired and book your next holiday.

"The biggest Greek island has a small country’s worth of things to see and do, including its very own cuisine, music and culture. The island of Zeus and Zorba, ancient even to the ancient Greeks, Crete is the cradle of myth and of Europe’s very first literate civilisation, the Minoan, whose joyous springtime art is reason alone to visit. One sandy beach after another lines the north coast, along with some of Crete’s largest cities and resorts. But even there you’re never far from a mountain road leading into another world of breathtaking landscapes, lonesome archaeological sites, frescoed Byzantine chapels and timeless villages."



https://www.thetimes.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/crete/

04/05/2021

Travel back in time in Crete!
Bronze age palaces, traces of Homer's narrations, theatres and cities depicting the Cretan political systems, icons and wall-paintings reflecting the beliefs of the Cretan people, conquerors from Venice and Anatolia; all entwined in an endless labyrinth on this remarkable island. Let us show you around the "cradle of Europe".

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29/04/2021

Today is Holy Thursday for Greek Orthodox Christians. And on this day, according to tradition, we dye the eggs red.

The origin of the custom is unclear, but the most popular story linked with the tradition is this:
Maria Magdalene, the follower of Jesus, was the first to see the empty tomb after His resurrection. She went to the Roman emperor to inform him. The emperor said that this was impossible and that he would only believe her claims if the eggs in the basket next to him turned red instantly... which they miraculously did!

In the past, the dying of the eggs was done with natural dyes from different plants. Like onions, beetroots, poppies, almond tree leaves and straw. Nowadays, though, we use food colouring.

The ritual of the cracking of the eggs -- when people tap each other’s egg -- takes place on Easter Sunday. This custom symbolises the 'cracking' of Christ's tomb and the bonds of death and His resurrection.
While cracking the egg, one person says "Christos Anesti" (Christ has risen), and the other replies "Alithos Anesti" (truly He has risen). Greek Orthodox Christians also use these words to greet each other, during the 40 days after the resurrection.

It is common belief that dyed Easter eggs can stay edible for 40 days without being refrigerated. If, however, a priest blesses the eggs on Easter Sunday, they are said to last a whole year without turning bad!

27/04/2021

A lovely video showing the beauty of Crete! Enjoy and get inspired for your next holiday!

Filmed in 2 Months of living on the beautiful island of Crete, this masterpiece is the result of traveling to various places around the island.A drone compli...

27/04/2021

27/04/2021