Places and activities in Crete

Beaches

Depending on you, the time of the year and according to what you would enjoy at best, there are many things to do. For example: Do you like swimming in crystal-blue water? Have a look at some of the countless beaches you can reach! Your choice is almost endless, between beaches either with amenities, or isolated and far from the madding crowd!

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Towns

Rethymno

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Chania

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Herakleion

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Events

According to the time of the year, there are a lot of happenings around. Since Gonia is such a centrally located village, you have access to music concerts, theater performances and many traditional festivals and events, like...

Mass at the summit of Psiloritis

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Cheesemaker's festival

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Celebrating shepherds

The shepards of the neighboring Amari valley are inviting everybody to their annual fest on the west slope of Psiloritis, always at a beautiful spot on a high altitude.

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St Yacinth

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Gorges

Samaria

The longest and most beautiful gorge of Crete

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Aradaina

Do you propably enjoy hiking through gorges, but you find Samaria too long?

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A couple of day-excursions

Byzantine churches in the Amari valley

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A day-excursion to ancient Aptera

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One day on the peninsula Akrotiri

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Margarites, The potter's village

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The monasteries of the Mylopotamos region

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Armenoi, a cemetery of the 2nd millennium B.C.

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Festos, the minoan Palace • Gortys, the ancient capital • Matala, the famous beach

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The Imbros gorge and the beach at Fragokastelo

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