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Platanias
Village
Why
choose between busy nightlife and peaceful village atmosphere,
when you can have them both?
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 warm yourself
with the Cretan sun and local hospitality.
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Falassarna
Falassarna
is a long sandy beach with wonderful sunsets. It has been
voted for Best Beach of Greece for 2002. There are several
beaches in the Falassarna bay:
• Small sandy beaches close to the ancient Falassarna
town (North)
• The "Big Beach" or "Paheia Ammos",
which is the famous long and wide sandy beach of Falassarna.
• Another sandy beach with a rocky seabed (south).
• A small pebbly beach close to the port of Falassarna |
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Chania
City
The
most poetic city of Crete when you walk through it leaves
you with a pleasant taste of beauty. Built on the ruins of
ancient Kidonia it has seen and survived many invaders, but
has also tasted civilizations that left their marks on building
faces, castles, walls, antiquities, monasteries and churches.
The
city has two entrances: the airport of Akrotiri, and the port
of Souda (the largest in the Mediterranean). The public market
holds a master place in the centre of the city, a brilliant
cross-shaped building that was completed in 1913, and in proportion
with the one in Marseilles.
Near
the city centre the Public Garden awaits you next to the "Peace
and Friendship of the people" park. The gardens are the
prettiest in Crete, and also the public garden offers a small
zoo with animals from Cretan fauna.
The
Venetian port picturesque any time and season is attractive
to visitors and locals, for it's beauty and for it's choices
of entertainment for all tastes and demands. The old city
"intramural" districts preserve their Venetian nobility.
Narrow paved alleys are surrounded with tasteful renewed houses,
from various ages, are offered for a pleasant walk. Many neoclassic
houses are also saved in districts which "neighbour"
with the city of Chania, like Halepa.
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Archaeological
Museum of Chania
The
museum is housed in the katholikon of the Venetian monastery
of St. Francis. During the period of the Turkish occupation
it was the Muslim mosque of Yussuf Pasha, while in modern
times it was used as a cinema or a storehouse for military
equipment. Since 1963 it has been functioning as the Archaeological
Museum of the city.
Apart
from the permanent exhibition, the museum houses temporary
exhibitions in the frame of certain local events (such as
the exhibition of musical instruments or on the birth of writing),
as well as music concerts.
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The
Palace of Knossos
The
Palace at Knossos is the largest (it covers an area of 20,000
square metres) and most spectacular of all the Minoan palatial
centres. It has all the typical features of the architectural
type established in ca. 1700 B.C.: four wings arranged around
a rectangular, central court, oriented N-S, which is actually
the nucleus of the whole complex. The east wing contains the
residential quarters, the workshops and a shrine. The west
wing is occupied by the storerooms with the large pithoi (storage
jars), the shrines, the repositories, the throne room and,
on the upper floors, the banquet halls. The north wing contains
the so-called "Customs House", a lustral basin and
the stone-built theatral area. The South Propylon is the most
imposing building in the south wing. A second, paved courtyard
to the west of the palace, equipped with the "processional
ways" (narrow causeways), was probably used for religious
ceremonies. The palace had many storeys, it was built of ashlar
blocks and its walls were decorated with splendid frescoes,
mostly representing religious ceremonies.
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