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Tourist Spot Attractions In Crete

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Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete , one of the 13 top-level administrative units of Greece. The capital and the largest city is Heraklion. As of 2011, the region had a population of 623,065. Crete forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece, while retaining its own local cultural traits . It was once the centre of the Minoan civilisation , which is the earliest known civilisation i...
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Tourist Spot Attractions In Crete

  • 1. Rethymnon Old Town Rethymnon
    Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno regional unit on the island of Crete, a former Latin Catholic bishopric as Retimo and former Latin titular see. Rethymno was originally built during the Minoan civilization . The city was prominent enough to mint its own coins and maintain urban growth. One of these coins is today depicted as the crest of the town: two dolphins in a circle.
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  • 2. Perivolia Municipal Stadium Perivolia
    Perivolia Municipal Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Mournies, Chania, Greece. From the season 2012—2013 the team competes in Platanias Peribolion Municipal Stadium of Chania, which in the summer of 2012, took place in record time, extensive upgrading and modernization work at all levels to meet in full all obligations set by the organizing principle of the league Super League OPAP and NOVA. Since then, the Municipal Golf farm has transformed into a modern football stadium, with two tiers , journalistic theory, brand-new change rooms for athletes and Referees , clinic, gym, comfortable office for the observer of the race, room for press conferences, and other facilities.
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  • 3. The Venetian Fortezza Rethymnon
    Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno regional unit on the island of Crete, a former Latin Catholic bishopric as Retimo and former Latin titular see. Rethymno was originally built during the Minoan civilization . The city was prominent enough to mint its own coins and maintain urban growth. One of these coins is today depicted as the crest of the town: two dolphins in a circle.
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  • 4. Moni Toplou Sitia
    Toplou Monastery is a 15th-century monastery located in a dry and barren area in the Lasithi regional unit, on the eastern part of the island of Crete in Greece. It is about 6 km north of the village of Palekastro and 85 km east of Agios Nikolaos. The monastery was originally called Panagia Akrotiriani , after the nearby Sidero cape. Its current name literally means with the cannonball, thus called by the Turks for the cannon and cannonballs it had in its possession for defensive purposes.
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  • 8. Vrondisi Monastery Zaros
    Vrontisi Monastery is a 14th-century Eastern Orthodox monastery situated between the villages of Zaros and Vorizia of the Heraklion regional unit in south-central Crete, Greece. The monastery is roughly 50 km southwest of Heraklion and is built at an altitude of 550 m on the south slopes of Mt. Ida, having a panoramic view of the Mesara Plain and the Asterousia Mountains. The origin of its name is not clear; according to the prevailing explanation it was named after its founder whose surname was Vrontisis.
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  • 9. Church of Saint Titus Heraklion
    The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 200–260 million members. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, the Orthodox Church has played a prominent role in the history and culture of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and the Near East. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops, called a Holy Synod. The church has no central doctrinal or governance authority analogous to the Catholic pope, but the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by all as primus inter pares of the bishops. Eastern Orthodox theology is based on the Nicene Creed, and the church teaches that it is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church esta...
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  • 10. The Holy Monastery of Preveli Rethymnon
    Preveli is a location on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete, in the Rethymno regional unit, notable for its historic monastery.
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  • 15. Koules Fort Heraklion
    The Castello a Mare is a fortress located at the entrance of the old port of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It was built by the Republic of Venice in the early 16th century, and is still in good condition today.
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