1. Phestos
(Places to visit on Crete/Archaeological sites on Crete)

... the west courtyard along with the few bottom steps of the converging staircases have been exposed during modern excavations, for they were buried one meter deep when the new palace was built. The ex...

2. Cretan wine
(Cretan diet recipes/Cretan Recipes)

...ed to Italy. In late medieval Europe, in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, vino di Candia (Candia is modern Heraklion) and Crete are wine names listed as highly valued in several sources from wes...

3. Chania
(Crete/Articles)

...feet of the White Mountains. Today, the city of Chania can be divided in two parts: the old town and the modern city which is the larger one. The old town is situated next to the old harbour and is t...

4. Knossos
(Places to visit on Crete/Archaeological sites on Crete)

...covered a substantial portion of what he named the Palace of Minos. The term palace may be misleading: in modern English, it usually refers to an elegant building used to house a head of state or simi...

5. Crete Music
(Crete/Articles)

...bidden by the monk's code of conduct. However, the connection between music and religion continues in modern Crete; priests are said to be excellent folk singers, including the rizitiko singer Agg...

6. Cretan Literature
(Crete/Articles)

...ndoubtedly the masterpiece of the Cretan literature. According to some philologists, the first works of Modern Greek were written in the Cretan dialect during the 16th century (others consider the b...

7. Archaeological museum of Heraklion
(Places to visit on Crete/Museums of Crete)

... Archaeological Service. It housed the valuable finds from Crete until 1937, when the construction of the modern, antiseismic building was begun. Thanks to the efforts of Prof. Nicolaos Platon, the tr...

8. Museums of Crete
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... Archaeological Service. It housed the valuable finds from Crete until 1937, when the construction of the modern, antiseismic building was begun. Thus the museum today has twenty rooms in all, contain...