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Top 10 Best of the Rest

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  • 1. Anogeia

    Pleasant cafés and shops conceal Anogeia’s embattled past, when it was a hotbed of resistance against the Turks, who sacked it in 1821 and 1826, and the Germans, who levelled it in 1944.

  • 2. Chora Sfakion

    A major rendezvous point for excursion groups who arrive by boat having walked the Samaria Gorge. Once they have found their coaches, the town returns to its pleasant slumber.

  • 3. Archaia Eleftherna

    Founded in 700 BC, ancient Eleftherna was a powerful Dorian city. Having vanished from history, it is now being rediscovered by archaeologists.

  • 4. Polyrinia

    Wonderful views surround the broken walls and foundations of this ancient Acropolis, upon which stands an equally ruined Venetian fortress (see Venetian Acropolis and Polyrinia).

  • 5. Monastery of Agia Irini

    This restored 14th-century monastery is now a nunnery and also a centre for traditional weaving and needlework.

  • 6. Aptera

    A Byzantine town built on the site of a Hellenistic city, remains here include Roman cisterns, Byzantine foundations, a Venetian monastery and a Turkish fort.

  • 7. Gramvoussa Peninsula

    The remote and barely populated Gramvoussa Peninsula has one of Crete’s best beaches at Falasarna, where there are also the scattered remains of a Hellenistic city.

  • 8. Rodopou Peninsula

    A barren peninsula that attracted the Orthodox monks who built the monastery of Moni Gonia, which has several fine icons.

  • 9. Akrotiri Peninsula

    Monks have been drawn to Crete’s peninsulas – Akrotiri’s best monasteries are the abandoned Moni Katholikou and the Venetian Moni Gouverneto (see Moni Gouverneto).

  • 10. War Cemetery

    The burial place of more than 1,500 Allied soldiers who died during the Battle of Crete, in May 1941.

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