Ancient Lyttos
Ruins of a powerful Dorian city in the hills.
Αρχαιολογικοί χώροι · Μινώα Πεδιάδας
An old traditional village.
Kastamonitsa is an old village in the hills south-east of Heraklion, near the Lasithi plateau. It has stone houses, narrow streets and old churches.
The village is quiet and untouched by tourism, a good place to see traditional Crete.
Kastamonitsa lies in the hills between Heraklion and the Lasithi plateau, at around 600 m. It's surrounded by olive groves and almond trees, and has several Byzantine churches. The village is a quiet place where you can see traditional life, and it's on the route to the Lasithi plateau via the mountain villages of Pediada.
Minoa Pediadas is the farming heartland of central Crete, a land of vineyards, olive groves and villages east of Heraklion. Kasteli is the main town, and the new airport of Crete is being built nearby. The area has many Byzantine churches with frescoes, the ruins of ancient Lyttos and quiet villages where tourists are rare. It's a good area for discovering the everyday life of rural Crete.
Heraklion is the heart of Minoan Crete and the island’s busiest region. Knossos and the Heraklion Archaeological Museum are the two places almost everyone visits, and they work well together on one day. In the south, the wide Messara plain holds the palace of Phaistos, the Roman ruins of Gortyna and the famous caves above the bay of Matala. Περισσότερα για Ηράκλειο
About 17 km from Malia by road.
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Ruins of a powerful Dorian city in the hills.
Αρχαιολογικοί χώροι · Μινώα Πεδιάδας
A market town among vineyards.
Χωριά & Πόλεις · Μινώα Πεδιάδας
A monastery at the entrance to the plateau.
Εκκλησίες & μοναστήρια · Οροπέδιο Λασιθίου
Crete's largest lake, with a drowned village.
Λίμνες, ποτάμια & καταρράκτες · Χερσόνησος
A green high plain ringed by mountains.
Οροπέδια, δάση & πάρκα · Οροπέδιο Λασιθίου
Cave above the Lasithi plateau, mythological birthplace of Zeus.
Σπήλαια · Οροπέδιο Λασιθίου
Getting there & around