Recent Posts Tagged With 'crete'

• THE LIBYAN SEA

  Posted on Sunday October 5th, 2008 at 10:50 in greece, greek islands, crete

  CRETE - SEPTEMBER 2008This is my post number Two Hundred on this blog, and the last one dedicated to Crete 2007. It is mostly directed to the less known Southern side of the Island. Next time (there will be a next time, hopefully), I'll finally get t...

• DEEP IN CRETE

  Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 18:01 in greece, greek islands, crete

  CRETE - SEPTEMBER 2007"AGIA TRIADA - The 1632 monastery of Agia Triada (Holy Trinity), located 16 km from Chania, in the Akrotiri peninsula, was built on top of a pre-existing church. With three domes, the main church is dedicated to the Agia Triada ...

• CHANIA AGAIN

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 18:01 in greece, greek islands, crete

  CRETE - SEPTEMBER 2007Of the four main cities in Crete - Herklion, Chania, Rethymno and Agios Nicolaus, Chania is probably the most interesting. No wonder that after the 2006 visit, we got back there in 2007. And actually, only a technicality made it...

• THE LARGEST GREEK ISLAND

  Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 18:01 in greece, greek islands, crete

  CRETE - SEPTEMBER 2007We were in Crete in 2006. We loved it so much that we returned in 2007!"GORTYNA (GORTYN) was a Roman city. According to the legend, Zeus married Europa under a plane tree in Gortyna, and that tree was permitted to remain green f...

• CRETAN TOWNS

  Posted on Tuesday March 18th, 2008 at 19:25 in greece, greek islands, crete

  HERAKLION, RETHYMNO & CHANIA - SEPTEMBER 2006***HERAKLION, IRAKLION OR CANDIAHeraklion, the fourth largest city in Greece, is the largest in Crete and its capital city. Founded in 824 AD by the Saracens, close to the site of the Palace of Knossos, it...

• STILL IN THE GREEK ISLANDS

  Posted on Sunday March 16th, 2008 at 19:03 in greece, greek islands, santorini, crete

  FROM SANTORINI TO CRETE - SEPTEMBER 2006***"ISLANDS - According to Wikipedia, Greece has some 1400 islands, 169 of which are inhabited, though only 78 have more than 100 inhabitants. The map I borrowed from WorldAtlas.com shows some of the most impor...

• THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION

  Posted on Wednesday March 5th, 2008 at 18:01 in greece, greek islands, crete, knossos

  KNOSSOS, CRETE - SEPTEMBER 2006Crete, located in the Eastern Mediterranean, some 160 km south of mainland Greece, is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus and Corsica. It is roughly 260 km from east to west, 56 ...

• ΜΠΛΕ, AZUL, BLUE, BLEU, BLAU, AZURRO...

  Posted on Monday March 3rd, 2008 at 02:19 in greece, greek islands, crete

  CRETE - SEPTEMBER 2006"MIRABELLO BAY - On the way from Heraklion to Elounda, we caught this beautiful view of the Bay. It got its name during the Venetian occupation, when the Venetians built a fortress in Agios Nicolaos they named Mirabello (look at...