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The marina in Hania port. The new Marina consisting of wooden floating docks, constructed in 1992, fills the eastern section of the venetian harbour of Chania.
CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - HANIA MARINA

The town of Chania, with its Venetian harbor and the remaining traces of the Ottoman occupation, was the capital of the island until the 1970s, and today remains its most charming city.
CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - THE VENETIAN HARBOUR by Omma art gallery

The small village Mades by the sea lies between the two cities Heraklion and Rethymnon twenty kilometres from the centre of Heraklion. Made occupies a delightful bay with a small sandy beach. It also serves as anchorage for smaller locally owned boats.
CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - MADES LYGARIA

Platanias Village is situated on the western part of Crete just 10 kilometers from the City of Chania. It is an attractive holiday resort with quality hotels, excellent services and breathtaking sceneries and of course soft sandy beaches. Here you can wa CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - PLATANIAS SMALL FISHING HARBOUR

View of the old port of Hania (the new port, where ferries from e.g. Piraeus go, is at Souda, at about 5kms from Hania town) CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - CHANIA OLD PORT

Take a ride! A visit to this city will prove very interesting, as it combines modernism with tradition, and it can satisfy the inquisitive visitor with its many culturally important sights to see. CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - CHANIA OLD PORT

View from above. The town center of Agias Nikolaos is a deep lake (deep enough for the retreating Germans to dump all their tanks during WWII, and nobody has seen them since and actually is not a lake because it is connected to the sea. CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - AGIOS NIKOLAOS

The entrance to the port. Hania is built on the site of the ancient city of Kydonia. This site was inhabited from Neolithic times and through all phases of the Minoan Period. Kydonia developed into a very important center of the Minoan civilization CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - CHANIA TOWN PORT ENTRANCE

Rethimnon a small Mediterranean city with its Renaissance architecture, Venetian fortress, museums, endless beaches, monasteries and churches, Venetian and Turkish monuments, areas of great natural beauty and local people, famous for their hospitality th CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - FORTEZZA

The Fortezza fortress of Rethymnon was built from 1573 till 1580 by the Venetians, for the protection of the inhabitants by the Turkish threat. It is starshaped with three gates and six bastions. CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - FORTEZZA

Hersonissos (or Chersonissos, as it sometimes transposed from the Greek) is on the north coast of the island of Crete, about 25 kilometres east of the capital, Iraklion. CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - HERSONISSOS

Ierapetra is situated on the southeast coast with approx. 10km coastlines and is the fourth largest town of Crete. Its total area covers 400,52 Km2 and its population is 12.500 inhabitants. Modern Ierapetra is built on the exact site of the ancient city. CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - IERAPETRA

Crete, but specifically the county of Chania, impresses its visitors and rightly so. The history, the cultural inheritance, the local people, the historical monuments, the superb natural environment but also the provision of high quality tourist services CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - THE OLD PORT

It certainly isn't accidental that many recent Greek cinematographical, TV or publicity productions have chosen Hania as an optical background, the old city is certainly the most photogenic of Greece, an ideal setting for your vacation. CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - NEORIA - OLD TOWN

The beach is an easy short stroll from the village centre. This can be one of the emptiest and quietest beaches in this stretch of coast west of Chania. Tavronitis beach is pebbly and very quiet indeed, a very relaxing place bordered by trees CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - TAVRONITIS BEACH

Have a coffee at a traditional Greek kafenio in the old town CRETE PHOTO GALLERY - CHANIA TOWN

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