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Rethymnon is one of the four major tourist centers of Crete. There are approximately 1,000 accommodation establishments in the prefecture of Rethymno and about twice as many villas. Rethymnon offers a very special kind of tourism, which is not to be...

The Cretan coffee house, called Kafenion, is a Greek institution, similar to the Pub in the UK or the Kneipe in Germany.
In the old days the Kafenion was the center of the village or town district. Everyone passed by, men were sitting there after work. In many Cretan villages and urban districts, which are perceived as small villages, it is still a social center. Formerly...

In ancient Greece Platia was the name of a main street in an ancient Greek city, in particular a representative developed road, which was lined by colonnades around... In cities that were created after the Hippodamian scheme, Plateiai formed the wide...

“We the Cretans love our island passionately and follow the spirit, which arose from the epoch of the lovers in the Minoan times and developed over the centuries under the eternal influence of other peoples, like Dorians, Egyptians, Byzantinians, Arabs...