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Porto Rethymno Hotel
Atlantis hotel& Aquila Rithymna Hotel
LAKE KOURNAS
KNOSSOS PALACE
LAPPASAMARIA GORGE
tourism made it a popular destination.
Victoria Hislop’s best-selling novel, The
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Island, has helped it become one of Crete’s
biggest attractions.
A footpath winds the entire way around
Spinalonga, and the views from different
sides of the island are stunning. As the sun
hits, the sea below is illuminated and turns The easiest way to reach Spinalonga is
a deep, intense blue. A museum has been on a short boat ride from Elounda, where
built to explain the island’s layers of history I stayed at Aquila’s Elounda Village Resort.
and visitors can explore the remains of 500- Alternatively, you can take a boat from
year-old Venetian houses, mixed with more Ayios Nikolaos.
Viator.com offers one-day
recent stone Ottoman ruins, and the austere tours for £33 including a BBQ lunch and a
Top: A view out of one of Spinalonga’s buildings architecture of buildings like the dormitory swim in the crystal blue waters of the Gulf
Above: A baker in Rethymno and hospital used by the leper colony. of Mirabello.
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