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Crete wins the love for its rich and turbulent history and the traces that to different civilizations have been leaving to its step; for its landscape contrast, from the eventful and rocky north full of cliffs and cities that look at the sea as Iraklion, the capital, Chania, Rethymnon, up to the loners calasy the beaches practically virgnes of the south; and for the closeness to of its people who invites to savor, a caharla inside a bar with a stained wineglass and a few olives.

To approach the biggest isal of Greece is to meet face to face the past, it is island feels anchored out of the time in está of of sailors and fishermen, where it surprises the color of the sea, of a blue so intensoque seems unreal and where to enjoy of every dawn is a gift for you entidos that it is not necessary to lose.

Crete has very interesting corners that cannot pass for high. The elllos first one is close to Heraklion, the capital, and is not different that the Knossos palace, impresindible in any camera of photos as a beun memory of the civilization minoica, one of the first ones of the antiquity.

A place impresindible after passing for the charming coastal peoples of Sisi and Malia near to a splendid royal palace, it can know the cave of Milatos, where the coffin full of bones remembers the dead persons of the War of Independence against the Turks in 1823. Continuing to the east of the island one finds Agios Nikolaos, in which one cannot allow visiting its church, one of any more ancient of quite Crete perfectly framed in the charming led scenery `por the lake Almini formed after the subsidence of a volcano.

An interesting area, in the area of Crete also there is luagres of garn interest as the cave of Going in which seún the mitilogía raised Zeus, and the village of Rethymno where the whole pleasure is its alleys of medieval ambience. In its old town give a homage to its palate in the Pub Or Gounos, where, in addition to enjoying traditional plates, it is possible to listen to live music.

The night if what he wants is something more about night life, the Hersonissos people does not get lost, to 25 Km to the east of of Heraklion. Day, magnificent beaches and aquatic and, night sports, an incessant march, with discotheques and pubs as crowded as Camelot, Tiger or Amnesia.

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