Being On Holidays In Amazing Agios Nikolaos

The most famous beach near Agios Nikolaos is of course the cosmopolitan Elounda, the ancient Olous. It is an amazing beach, but it is not the only one. Plaka, Driros, Kitroplateia and Ammos, in Agios Nikolaos, Ammoudara, the amazing Gournia, are among the most beautiful beaches of the Mediterranean. luxury resorts crete It is not just that the visitor will enjoy the salt, playful pebbles, hidden diamonds, but also that the landscape and the waters that surround Agios Nikolaos are simply impossible to describe.

The fact that one can see such an exotic landscape as the beach in Vai, not going down to Africa for example, is unbelievable. It is the largest palm forest in Europe, which according to legend was created by Arab pirates, who ate dates and left their seeds. It is a shocking landscape, of great harmony and beauty, somewhat unreal when someone faces its beauty and realises that he is in Greece. Moreover, Kalydon was in antiquity the name of Spinalonga, whose current Venetian name means "long thorn". Apart from the well-known story with the excluded patients, the ancient Kalydon is a magical place in the bay of Elounda, in which prominent Minoan priests once officiated.

Finally, the Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos maintains and exhibits a vast treasure from the Minoan Crete. There, the visitor can see over 1,600 finds from the Agia Fotia Cemetery, located near Sitia. It is a prehistoric cemetery, the largest that has been excavated in Crete. 

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The Perfecture Of Lasihti

When the Venetians occupied Crete (1210 - 1669) they first divided it administratively into sections, ie into prefectures (territorii) and provinces (sexterii), to which they gave names according to their language and their own standards, many of which are preserved to this day. These divisions were then divided as manors to Venetian nobles for administration and exploitation, except for the plateau of Dikti which is now called Lasithi with the surrounding areas, Alikampos and a large part of Messara (Miron area), which remained as public estates.

Some claim that "the earliest known written reference to the place name Lasithi is found in the Carta Concessionis (= concession document) of 1211 (Creta Sacra II, 239)", which states that Sitia, Ierapetra, Mirabello and Lassithi were the exarchate «Canaregia, o S. Apostolo: Settia Gerapetra Mirabello & Lasiti»

The Prefecture of Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture of Crete. It borders on the west with the Prefecture of Heraklion, having as a natural border the mountain range of Dikti. It is next to the sea on the other three sides i.e. the Cretan Sea to the north, the Carpathian to the east and the Libyan southerly. crete hotels The islands that belong to the Prefecture of Lasithi are numerous and interesting, each for its own reason. Spinalonga, the island with a Venetian fort that was also used as a gathering place for the Hansenians (lepers), Agioi Pantes, which is a refuge of Cretan chamois (krikri), Kolokytha, Pseira, Dionysiades, Elassa, Koufonisi, Chrysi with an endemic species of cedar etc.