| Crete. The lowest end of Greece and Europe. The birthplace of civilization all
    around the world. The island with consecutive alterations of sceneries attracts
    visitors and offers a trip to yesterday, that everyone would want to keep
    as a lifetime experience...
 Crete is the biggest island in Greece. It is situated
    among Aegean and Libyan Sea. It is the crossroad between East and West,
    Africa and Europe.
 
 Due to this strategic location, Crete was always the bone
    of contention for the strongs of every era. The geographic location as and
    the contact with different civilizations, attributed to the special culture
    of this island. Cretians are famous for their hospitality (Xenios - Zeus,
    the god of hospitality, was born in Crete), their love towards country and
    preservation of customs.
 
 It is an island that has everything. High mountains
    (Psiloritis, Lefka Ori, Dikti), beautiful
    beaches washed by the Cretan and
    Libyan Sea. Fertile grounds where, the famous cretan citrus fruits are cultivated.
    The endless olive groves
    produce the fine cretan olive oil, while also known is the cretan wine from
    the island's vineyards. Everywhere you turn your sight, you will see
    historic monuments that reveal the island's history.
 
 Administratively, Crete
    is divided into four prefectures (Chania, Rethymno, Heraklion, Lasithi).
    All prefectures or if you wish, all towns and villages, are ideal for touring.
    They all have unseen beauties and important sites to see.
 
 Getting to Crete should not be to expensive, look around for cheap 
              plane tickets, and save your money for fine dinning 
              and sight seeing. All around Crete 
              you will find luxurious hotel 
              units, apartments and rooms to let, which in combination to 
              the exemplary hospitality of people, create the idyllic conditions 
              for unforgettable holidays. As for entertainment, all you have to 
              know is that music and dancing have a long tradition on the island. 
              In the homeland of lyre and mantinada (type of singing in rhymes), 
              you will have the time of your life drinking raki 
              (cretan grape spirit)!
 
 
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