Rethymnon – ideal base for exploring the island
Town with vivid medieval-renaissance color The town of Rethymnon with its 28.000 inhabitants and additional 7000 students is a small city which preserves a vivid medieval-renaissance color. The old, but exceptionally preserved city center is located beneath the walls of its sleepless guard, the Venetian Fortezza fortress. The coastline......
Vai – Europe’s largest palm forest with a beautiful sandy beach
Vai – largest palm forest in Europe The eastern end of the island of Crete is known to all by the palm forest surrounding the sandy beach of Vai. In Vai the palm Phoenix theophrasti endemic to the Aegean coasts forms on over 2 acres of wooded area the......
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