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The best wines in Crete (and from other parts of Greece) can be tasted and bought in this new visitor centre at Crete’s top winery on the Fantaxommetocho vineyard (see Boutari Winery and Audio-Visual Show).
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The market building is a Chania landmark and bustles with vendors and shoppers. A visual feast and also the place to buy herbs, olive oil, dried fruit, honey and typical Cretan souvenirs, such as the tiny metal pots used to brew Greek coffee.
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Vividly coloured weavings, shepherds’ sticks, embroidery, lace, herbs, wines, raki and olive oil.
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Old-fashioned rosaries made from olive wood, amber, jet, turquoise etc.
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Traditional foodstuffs of Crete.
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Promoting the produce of local farmers, this co-operative venture is well worth visiting just to see how the vines and olives of Crete are grown and processed. It is also a good place to pick up quality olive oil, very drinkable wines and raki, Crete’s favourite spirit.
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For quality replicas of finds from the archaeological sites of Crete, visit the Museum Shops, in the former Venetian Loggia on Odos Paleologou in Rethymno and in the Byzantine Museum in Chania.
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Artistic wood-turner acquiring an international reputation for his beautiful handmade bowls, vases and works of art.
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Irakleio’s main market street and a great place to shop for Cretan herbs and tisanes. It also offers an insight into the Cretan diet – along with the olives, you will see buckets of live snails for sale.
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Named after the legendary inventor of the Labyrinth (see The Minotaur and the Labyrinth), this road is rather more upmarket than Odos 1866, and is lined with shops selling jewellery and linen and cotton clothes to summer visitors.
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