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08/09/2024

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05/09/2024

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08/08/2024

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26/04/2024

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25/02/2024

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It's located at the center of Rethymno's historic center in the Venetian church of Saint Francis, The collections include findings from caves, settlements and cemeteries of the Minoan Era, as well as objects from the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman eras.
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The permanent exhibition of the archaeological museum of Chania is set out in 3 galleries on the ground floor of the building. It features the rich archaeological heritage of Chania over the long course of time. From the earliest human presence through prehistoric settlements and historical cities, dispalayed artifacts highlightaspects of social and administrative organization, religion, entertainment, war and trade.
the daily life of past people is also explored, offering snapshots of their occupations, utensils, toiletries, burial csutoms, and attitudes towards death.
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04/02/2024

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The new museum aims to highlight the unique character of tiw important region over time, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.
Messara is an area with a high destiny of archaeologica sites and monuments. The museum itself is located at the western end of the archaeological site of Gortyn, with covers and boundaries of the ancient city. Its aim is to be the core of the interconnection of all the archaeological sites of the region, which are displayed through its rooms.
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24/01/2024

24/01/2024

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25/11/2022

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11/09/2022

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22/05/2022

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22/01/2022

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South of the city of Chania and at a distance of 39km is located the plateau of Omalos, at an altitude of 1080m with an extent of 25 square kilometers, mainly inhabited during the summer months. It is a geological polje surrounded by many White Mountain peaks. It has three different entrance/exit access points: one from the north in the direction of Chania, one from the west towards the villages of Selinou and one in the south east through the Samaria Gorge.

From the plateau starts the dirt road which leads to the Kallergi Mountain Refuge at 1680m which is exemplarily equipped for ” would-be” climbers of the White Mountain summits. On the plateau is the grave of Hatzimichali Yiannari, the well-known chieftain of the 1866 revolution against the OttomanRule in Crete. Also there is the cave chasm of Tzani, the natural outlet of the water from the polje 3 million years ago which, although its total length has not been explored, appears to be more than 10km.

The few horticultural and fruit producing cultivations are clearly seasonal, as there is usually snow - cover for 3-5 months. The plateau is, however, the indisputable centre of livestock rearing for the Prefecture of Chania, like the Askifou plateau on the west side of the White Mountains, with a large production of dairy products of exceptional quality. In winter, in its eating-places, many Chania people gather to enjoy the snow-covered peaks and to try the wonderful animal products, while in summer they are full of walkers who go through the Samaria Gorge or climb the different peaks of the White Mountains.

12/12/2021

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One of the most important sites of Crete, located in south central Crete 45 km. away from Heraklion, towards Moires. The excavations started very early in 1896 by Frederic Halbher (Italian) and Josef Chatzidakis (Greek).Gortyna was one of the most powerful city states of ancient Crete. As the Romans captured the island, Gortyna became the capital city of Crete and Cyrene (north Africa) and enjoyed big prosperity. The city area is spread in many hectares of land, while in the visited by groups territory some of the most important buildings are: The big early Christian basilica of St. Titus, which was built in the 6th- 7th c.AD, and it is believed to be the first bishop’s seat in Crete, and the burial place of Titus, first bishop of the island. Then is the Roman Odeon, a building of the 1st c.AD from the times of Trian the Emperor. In the same area, is the Gortyna law code, known as the ‘Queen of inscriptions’ or ‘the Great inscription’ a collection of very early Greek laws that were cut on stone in the 5th c. BC. Across the street from the fenced site are a few more excavations that can not be visited properly though, only what one can see through the fence: The Praetorium, which was the governor’s home. The temple of Apollo, the temple of Isis and Sarapis, and the 5 ailed basilica of the 4th – 5th c. AD, which could be according to some the real church of St. Titus, ancient theaters, fountains and many more.

The finds of Gortyna are some in the Museum of Archaeology and some in the Historical Museum in Heraklion, while next to the café there is a small collection of Roman sculptures.

05/12/2021

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The site is set on the hill of Palaicastro, at a distance of 15 km from the city of Chania. In the last years the archeological site has undergone systematic archeological research and the beautiful ancient theater with views to the Souda bay (in the north) and White Mountains (in the South) is scheduled to be restored.

The city is already mentioned in tablets of 14th -13th century b.C. and survives until the 7th century A.D where it is destroyed by a powerful earthquake combined by the attacks of the Saracen pirates. Later, during the second byzantine period, the entire city area is donated to Patmos Monastery and a succursal is constructed which was operational until 1960. Finally, during the Cretan Revolution in 1866-69 the Ottoman rulers have built a castle.

The most important findings of Aptera, can be viewed in the Archeological Museum of Chania. Among them is a marble statue of the Goddess Hygeia and a portrait in marble of a couple from a funeral monument.

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07/11/2021

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The Monastery of Arkadi is the symbol of freedom and longing for the Liberation of the island and its people in Crete under the Ottoman rule. Set on a low plateau (at an altitude of 500 meters above sea level) on the foot of mountain Psiloritis at a distance of 23 km from the city of Rethymnon. Most probably it was founded in the beginning of the 14th century. In 1572 the Monastery became a priory and the reconstruction of the older church took place to its present form. In the years of the Ottoman rule the Monastery suffered several destructions and looting. Following the Greek revolution of 1821 in mainland Greece, Crete could not afford to miss this opportunity of freedom and independence from the Ottomans and union with Mother Greece. In the great Cretan uprising of 1866, Abbot of the monastery was Gabriel Marinakis; Arkadi became a center of revolution. Thus lead an army of 15000 Ottoman troops along with 30 cannons surrounding it, hoping for the revolutionaries to surrender, and putting an end to the whole uprising. Within the monastery 350 armed men, 600 women and children had found refuge. Despite the heroic efforts of the rebels it was an uneven battle. Once the cannons had demolished the gate and the Ottomans broke through the outer wall a massacre began. To the east of the monastery, in the old wine cellar - converted gun powder room- where women and children have found refuge, in an effort of compassion to free women and children from slavery, the gunpowder was lid up. November 9th 1866 the holocaust of Arkadi took place.

From then on this monastery has become a symbol of freedom, Crete finally freed in the early 20th century and the building, as well as the monastery, were eventually reconstructed according to the original plan. The Monastery’s architecture is very much like that of a fortress. It is compiled by a big, rectangular and well preserved building complex where in its center (and south of it) the two-aisled saddle arched church. Its façade remains a synthesis of medieval renaissance and mannerist elements created by engraved white limestone. One can clearly notice the strong influence by the designs of the great Italian architects Andrea Palladio and Sebastiano Serlio. The south aisle is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ while the north to the Saints Constantine and Helen. One can see the relics of the (initially built with a dome) powder room. On the west of the Monastery lies the stables complex comprised by three domed buildings constructed in 1714.

The small museum of the Monastery showcases portable byzantine icons, manuscripts gold-embroidered religious garments of the 17th century, artifacts of byzantine jewelry making and wood carving as well as many relics from the holocaust of Arkadi.

03/10/2021

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Lassithi is an oval-shaped plain surrounded by mountains. The surface of the plain measures 11km east-west and 6km north-south.
It's covered with fields of grain and plots of vegetables such as potatoes and cabbage, ehich are irrigated by means of thousands of windmills.
Lassithi is the only area in Crete over 200m in elevation which is permanently settled all year around.http://www.travel-crete.gr/

19/09/2021

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The initial research was conducted by the Italians F. Halbherr and A. Taramelli in 1884. After 1898 excavations were organized by Halbherr and Pernier (1900-1914) and later by Doro Levi (1950-1971) under the supervision of the Italian Archaeological School in Athens.

The surface of the site adds up to 9 hectares. The region was inhabited from the 6th millennia BC to the early Byzantine years. Typical as it may seem, the earliest Minoan palace with the West court in three levels, Central court, sanctuaries, storage rooms, workshops, and other rooms arranged in at least two floors. The first complex, of a total surface of 18000 m2, approximately 2 hectares, was built on the top of a low hill in the beginning of the second millennia BC and was destroyed by fire in 1700 BC. In the middle of the 16th century BC, possibly between 1570-1560 BC a new imposing palace was erected, of a total surface of 12000 m2 which lived on till the final destruction in 1450 BC. In the archaic years an urban settlement was built (Rhea temple and public buildings) until the destruction by the neighboring Gortyna in 150 BC. In the early Byzantine years simple tombs were dug in the upper West Court.

Amongst the most significant finds, the yet to be deciphered clay disc in the transitional phase from Cretan Hieroglyphic to Linear A (known as Phaestos Disc) and plenty of Kamaraic style pottery of an exceptional quality.

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It is one of the most important archaeological sites of Crete, located 3 km. west of Phaestos palace, central Crete. The distance from Heraklion is 66 km. The excavations are conducted by the Italian School of Archaeology, from the early 20th c. till nowadays.

The name Agia Triada, was given by the Medieval abandoned and in ruins now village, which existed on the left bank of Geropotamos river. According to Venetian documentation of 1583, there were 150 inhabitants in the village. Today there is not much left to see, except from the village ruins and the churches of Agia Triada and Agios Georgios.

The ancient site is located between Phaestos palace and the Libyan sea, was discovered in the early 20th c. by the Italian archeologist Luigi Pernier. The Minoan mansion was built around 1550 BC and destroyed possibly by fire around 1450 BC. Apparently it was used as a summer residence of Phaestos royalty, although it could very well be their permanent residence after the destruction of Phaestos palace.

Into the next period, Mycenaean, there was a large ‘Megaron’ type building that was built on top, while later on in the 5th c. B.C the site is out of use with the exception of a temple to Zeus Velchanos. Some of the top quality artifacts were found there such as: The famous sarcophagus of Ayia Triada, fully decorated with frescoes depicting rituals, sacrifices of animals, cults and practices for the dead and offerings. The clay figurine of a sacred ecstatic swinging woman, stone ritual vases cut with scenes in relief, known as the ‘sports Rhyton’, the magnificent ‘Harvesters vase’ and ‘the chieftain’s cup’. They are all displayed in the Heraklion Museum.
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24/08/2021

in the south of is the most southern part in Europe. It's a small island, with almost 50 inhabitants, with wild beauty, crystal blue waters and amazing coastline and beaches, where cedars reach the sea.
The island is a migratory bird station and a refuge for the endange red species of mediterrranean seals and turtles caretta-caretta.
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12/08/2021

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The island was fortified by Venetians in the 16th century.
In 1903 it became a lepers colony and the last lepers left the island in 1957

03/08/2021

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Knossos archeological site is located just 5 km. southeast of Heraklion. The first excavation was conducted in 1878 by Minos Kalokairinos. It begun systematically though by Arthur Evans in 1900.The site expands for about 22.000 sq. m. and the human inhabitation of it stretches from 6.800 – 1300 BC.

It is the biggest in size Minoan Palace of Crete, and lots of its architectural features were copied in the rest of the Minoan Palaces. The building is built around a big rectangular central yard, and is extended towards every direction, multi floored and quite complicated at places. Within its premises, different in use rooms and buildings were discovered such as: a great number of storage rooms and hundreds of ‘pithoi’, jars in them, potters workshops, stone carvers workshops, metal makers areas, shrines and temples, ‘lustral basin’, or purification rooms, throne room with a gypsum throne, staircases and living quarters.

The palace was built twice and was destroyed twice, while there is a third phase as well, when it was partly rebuilt after the final catastrophe. It is very possible that during its first phase it was not a complete building, but a collection of ‘insule’, a number of different non united blocks.

There are 5 different entrances to it, in one of which a very elaborate access ramp is preserved. Of the most impressive architectural features are the Great west courtyard with its 3 round ‘kouloures’ , the earliest in Europe theater, the earliest in Europe stone paved road known as ‘the royal road’, leading to the ‘little palace’.

Some of the most important objects, displayed in the Heraklion Museum are: The frescoes of the procession, the King-Priest fresco, the bull-leaping fresco, the one of the three partite shrine, the griffins fresco, the dolphins fresco and the fresco of the charging bull. Then it is the stone cut head of a lioness, the ivory acrobat, the snake Goddesses, the town’s mosaic, the clay tablets of Linear A and B

29/07/2021

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Only 15km east of Hora Sfakion is located the Venetian fortress of Frangokastello. The area around, appears to have already been inhabited from Paleolithic times without a break. Small stone tools, examples of caves with rocked engravings, but also Minoan ceramics were found in surface excavations (Surface Survey of American Group of Archaeologists and Scientists from 1980 entitled ‘Sfakia Mission’). Also, traces of residence seem to continue to Roman times. In the 6th Century AD a basilica was built n the foundations of which was constructed in the 13th Century the temple of Saint Nikitas, which later provided the first name for the Venetian Fort.

The Fort was constructed between 1371 and 1374, so as to exist better control of the local revolutionaries, but also as protection from the seaward side. Here, French-registered ships or vessels bound for Toulon, frequently anchored, to seek out Cretan products of well-known quality. So, from the term ‘frangos’, which for the locals described the Frenchman during the years of the Venetian and Turkish occupations, in the local dialect it, was called ‘Frangokastello’. As ‘Castel Franco’ was not given to us from Venetian sources, but they knew it as ‘Castillo di San Nikita’.

It became known for the revolution of 1821, on 18th May 1828 (and in an effort to rekindle the revolutionary movement which in Crete had weakened in 1823) here were sheltered the Greek and Cretan revolutionaries with their leader the Greek-Albanian Hatzi Michali Daliani. The movement had an ugly outcome with the death of 385 revolutionaries and the leader in a heroic exit at night and the blowing up of the fort by the Ottoman Turks. The battle which followed next, however, in retaliation for the above heroic deaths, on the part of the unruly Sfakian fighters, resulted in the slaughter and desertion of the Turkish military, with maybe 5000 victims, as extravagantly referred to in the sources from the period. The Turks would undertake the reconstruction in 1866.

This event is also connected with a natural optical phenomenon, the ‘Drosoulites’, probably a mirage; from refraction through the morning dewdrops, residents of North Africa appear like shadows of soldiers around the end of May, which many locals identify with the slaughtered revolutionaries of Daliani’s uprising.

21/07/2021

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The late minoan settlement of Gournia lies 19km SE of Agios Nikolaos. Comprising a small palace and residential areas, it was built between 1600-1500 B.C, destroyed in 1450 B.C and reoccupied from 1375 to 1200 B.C. There are streets, stairways and houses with walls up to 2m high. Domestic trade and agricultural implements discovered here, suggest that Gournia might have been fairly prosperous.

15/07/2021

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Rethymno's archaeological collection moved to the Venetian-built former chuch of St Francis. It features highlights from major archaeological digs around Rethymno province, including the cemetery of Armeni.

10/07/2021

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The Imbros Gorge, east of Samaria and parallel to it with a length of 8km, is one of the most well-known, much-frequented gorges in the White Mountains. On the one hand, this is because it is shorter (the part passed through may come down to 5-6km), but also because it has smaller and less unevenness than the others, so as not to necessitate the specialized equipment, needed in other well-known gorges because of their greater difficulty. It can be walked throughout the year with, of course, particular care in winter, especially after torrential rain. It begins at the village of Imbros at a height of 750m and ends a little before the Libyan Sea, outside the village of Komitades in the region of Sfakia.

It is especially interesting in spring with all the flowers and orchids which grow on both sides of the river bed which, however, mainly in winter has water. The walk takes about 3 hours and walkers need to have a ticket, which they can provide themselves with at the entrance to the gorge. Its narrowest point is only 1.60m, where it is easy to touch both sides of the walls which rise to 300m. It is amazingly impressive with its luxuriant vegetation and rocky sides which wind their way like a snake through the mountain massif.

On reaching the exit, there are various eating-places for the walkers in the village of Komitades, but also the chance of finding transport, as individual visitors usually leave their own means of transport at the entrance to the gorge (5-8km away).