Some Cretan facts if you want to learn something about this island and you would like to decide why to visit it!
Crete is among the main tourist destinations in Greece due to the numerous archaeological and naturalistic sites and for the particular cultural heritage it has, expressed through linguistic, literary, musical and gastronomic specificities.
The inhabitants of Crete are called Cretans, or even Candioti (from the city of Heraklion – Candia in Italian – the most populous city of Crete).
Its name comes from the presence of a very large quantity of clay (the material with which the inhabitants built tools and vases).
Crete (gr. Κρήτη) Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean (8336 km2 with 606,274 inhabitants in 2008), S-SE of the Peloponnese, which stretches from E to W for over 260 km.
Largely of Mesozoic origin, it is mostly mountainous. In fact, the three massifs of Lefká (2452m), Ida (2456m) and Diktí (2147m) line up along a central band, while the plains are arranged on the coastal margins: the most extensive is that of Messarà , to S. The southern coast, for the rest, is high and united, unlike the northern one, engraved by numerous inlets
Between the III and II millennium BC the island was the hub of the Minoan civilization, one of the oldest advanced civilizations in Europe, which had its main centers in Knossos, Cydonia and Festus. Over the centuries it was conquered and inhabited by Mycenaeans, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Andalusian Muslims, Venetian with a brief spell of Genoese rule (1267-1290) and Ottoman Turks until its definitive unification with the Greek state in 1913.
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