…Agios Nikolaos, a fabulous Greek town, leaned against a mountain of white stone, with terraces running down to the Gulf of Mirabello. Your cherish wish will be the never-ending stroll through its cobbled streets, staircases winding along the slope like bougainvillea-lianas. Their gently pink flowers are reaching for the roofs, balconies, parapets and …for you—an […]

Crete is the largest island in Greece, and the fifth largest one in the Mediterranean Sea. Crete is the southernmost point of Europe! Crete is an ideal place to visit all year round. Its mild climate and its unique nature features attract visitors before and after the touristy summer season. Here, you can admire the […]

There are very many ancient cities in Crete. The most famous are Knossos, Gortyna, Aptera, Faistos, shrouded in legends and inscribed in the history of the island. But there is one excavation cite attracting archeologists for more than a century. This is Eleftherna, an ancient polis in the Rethymno region. The city-state has brought to […]

On the upright hominids, it is known that they are from Africa. The hominids are the most highly organized family of anthropoid apes. According to most scientists, it includes Australopithecus; and, according to the prevailing notion of the origin of hominids, they are a branch of higher primates, which has led to the emergence of […]

continuation, beginning in the number 3 (17), 2017   By nature itself, the inhabitants of Crete, once dominant in the Mediterranean, were predestined to become seamen, and Cretans, of course, were the people who for centuries formed the sea elite – skippers, and experts in the field of navigation. This stratum was of fundamental importance, […]

Traces of human activity 128 thousand years BC belonging to the Middle Paleolithic have been found on Crete when the level of the Mediterranean Sea was below the current by about 160 yards, and the inhabitants of the island had boats. There were there dwarf hippos and Sicilian dwarf elephants. About predecessors of the latter, […]

As in all Greece, there are many Methuselahs on Crete, especially in some remote villages. Scientists have discovered the reason of longevity of so many healthy people in remote Greek villages in the north of Crete. The reason lies in a newly discovered variety of a gene that is available to all residents of these […]

Crete is the largest Greek island. Its beautiful sceneries, primarily maritime ones, as well as mountains, forests and sands attract tourists. The island has a mild and healthy climate. The air is always clean and fresh, because there are no industrial plants nearby. On Crete the sun shines 340 days a year. The swimming season […]

In the Ottoman Empire, the 60-es was a period of the Tanzimat reforms aimed at overcoming feudal backwardness of the country in order to eliminate arbitrariness and corruption, creating a bourgeois society based on freedom and law; but they was carried out very slowly and inconsistently across the country. Under these conditions in spring 1866, […]