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 | This large seaside village of the municipality of Lambi counts 1041 inhabitants. It is a well organized tourist resort with comfortable hotels, apartments, camping sites, tourist agencies, car-renting offices, restaurants, tavernas and other recreation centres, as well as all the facilities required by tourists and locals alike.
Aghia Galini is a new village, founded in 1884 by villagers from Melambes. |
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 | Remains of a settlement and graves proove that the site was inhabited as early as the 3rd millenium B.C. In 2600-1700 B.C., the time of the heyday of the first (old) palace at Phaistos, only small building were erected in the area of the Royal Villa. The villa was built in ca. 1600 B.C. and destroyed sometime in the 15th century. |
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 | The gorge of Agiofarago starts from the road from Odigitria Monastery to Kali Limenes on the south coast of Iraklion and ends at the sea, west of Kali Limenes.
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 | Agios Ioannis is a small village - its one of the three that belongs to the community of Kamilari. To be more precise its located a few miles west of the archaeological site of Phaistos, and also a few miles from the sea. he sight I liked most is the one of the church of Agios Georgios (dating back t |
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 | Asterousia Range consists of various low mountains and hills, spreading from Cape Lithino to Ierapetra. The higher mountain is Mt Kofinas (1280 m). The existence of this range makes approach to the southern coast of Iraclion kind of an adventure; driving is very tiring as roads are narrow, full of looping curves, climbing up steep mountain flanks. |
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 | Phaistos is located 62 km south of Iraklion and, administratively, is part of the Municipality of Kamilari. It was the second biggest city of the Minoan Crete and it is built on a hill, at an altitude of 100 m from sea level, in the fertile valley of Messara.
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 | The village of Gallia is located 58 Km from Iraklion, and is administratively part of the municipality of Mires. It is built at an altitude of 250 m., surrounded by hills. It commands an imposing view south to the Messara Valley and to the Asterousia mountain range, west to the Libyan sea and north to the Psiloritis mountain. |
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 | Gortys is located at the Messara Valley, near the village of Agioi Deka, on the 46th km of the main road from Iraklion to Tibaki that traverses the island from north to the south.
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 | Hraklio is the capital of the homonym prefecture. It is the biggest of all the other cities of Crete with 85000 thousands inhabitants. Arabians built it in 824 b.c and it was called Xandax. It is surrounded from old Venetian walls which have total length 5km. Their construction has started in 1462 and lasted for more than 100 years.
It is the biggest and the most important fort of Europe. |
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 | Kalamaki community is fairly new, constantly developing, built on a beach of exceptional natural beauty and character.
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