Palekastro Tourist and Travel Guide of Eastern Crete. Accommodation, attractions, activities and archeology-History
Thalassa apartments offer charming self-catering accommodation for your holidays in Palekastro, Sitia and Eastern Crete. They are extremely well situated for easy access both to the beautiful Kouremenos Beach (just 300 m away) and to the famous Vai Palm Beach…
This village belongs to the Itanos Municipality. The origin of the name is unknown, perhaps it is derived from a family name. It is not mentioned in the 1583 census, but it is believed to have been razed with other…
Voula's Casadimare apartments located just 70m from the sandy beach of Kouremenos, in the middle of an olive grove of 6000sqm In Voula's Casadimare you will find Cretan hospitality combined with the personal care that the family owners provide during…
We offer top quality, efficient, reliable, high performance bikes and scooters for rent. All of our bicycles are perfectly maintained, fine tuned for precise, reliable operation. We clean and service them after every single use, so you can focus on…
Tenda is a remote rocky area located at the most north-eastern side of Crete, 29km far from Sitia city and 156 from Heraklion. It is 7 kms away from the palm forest and beach Vai and 15 kms away from…
Our route starts from Karidi village at 600 meters altitude. As we walk a few hundred meters west of the settlement on our left begins the path that after 1700m and 30 minutes walking on a distinct stone-built path we…
The Natural Park of Sitia is on the easternmost edge of Crete, in the Municipality of Sitia. It covers the entire area of the former Municipality of Itanos, as well as parts of the former Municipalities of Lefki and Sitia.…
Itanos is a city-harbour located 9km far from Palekastro village, Eastern Crete. The site had an important maritime role as revealed by Herodotus. The author mentions the significance of the city in the Greek colonization of Cyrene in Lybia. The…
Kelaria is a small mountain village in the east of Sitia region, 30 kilometres from coastal Sitia and just 5 km before the village of Zakros. The scenery is typical of the mountainous east of Lassithi Prefecture, with not very…
Mitato (the word means «cheese dairy» in the Cretan dialect) is the central village of a community of five small villages, the other four being Honos, Xerolimni, Krioneri or Misiryou (perhaps derived from the Latin missir: gentleman or lord, or…
