CRETE, Greece's largest island, May 2014.

Click on a picture to see a larger one.
Back to this page: use the "Previous page" button.

Hania port	Hania former mosk	Hania: inside the former mosk
Hania church, former mosk	Hania town wall	Aptera church
Aptera: ruins of ancient Greek-Roman town	Aptera Turkish fortress Koulo	Aptera: fortress Izzedini and Akrotiri peninsula
Gournia lake	Gournia lake	Rethymno church of the 4 martyrs
Rethymno gate	Rethymno wall painting	Rethymno: fontain 1629 with Roman pillars
Rethymno fortress, 16th century	Rethymno: Turkish mosk within the fortress	Rethymno inside the mosk
Rethymno magazines of the fortress	Rethymno: fortress, view of town and sea	Armeni antique cemetery
Armeni: subterranean burial place	Armeni stairs in burial place	Armeni funeral vault
Archea Eleftherna Doric-Greek town	Archea Eleftherna Greek-Roman town	Arkadi: monastery wall rebuilt in 1870
Arkadi: monastery, 13th century	Arkadi: monastery courtyard	Arkadi: monastery church, 1587
Agia Galini at the south coast	Agia Galini	Agia Galini
Agia Triada: "Minoic" town, 3500 years old	Agia Triada agora (marketplace)	Agia Triada base of a pillar
Agia Triada room with benches	Agia Triada church, 14th century	Agia Triada inside the church
Festos: Minoic (antique Cretan) palace	Festos royal apartment	Festos royal apartment
Festos storerooms	Festos stock bins	Festos courtyard
Matala caves in rock-face	Matala: Roman tombs inside the caves	Kissou Kambos small church
Heraklio fontain, 17th century	Heraklio sculpture of fontain	Heraklio loggia, 17e eeuw
Heraklio port and fortress	Heraklio fortress, 16th century	Heraklio: fontain made of Roman sculptures
Heraklio Turkish building	Heraklio cathedral, 19th century	Heraklio church from 1555
Knossos: residency of king Minos	Knossos: throne hall, alabaster throne	Knossos: replica of bull fighting fresco
Knossos: restored bastion with bull fresco	Knossos: theatre and royal road	Knossos: royal apartment with fresco
Knossos royal apartment	Knossos restored house	Vlichada chapel on the roadside
Vlichada: north coast near Herakleio	gorge Kourtaliotiko	gorge Kourtaliotiko
gorge mountain goat	gorge small church	gorge inside the church
gorge Kourtaliotiko	gorge waterfall	gorge purple arum
Preveli old Venetian bridge	Preveli ruin of monastery	Preveli ruin of monastery
Preveli monastery	Preveli monastery: old fountain	Preveli south coast
Preveli palm trees	Preveli: river leading to the sea	Frangokastello Venetian fortress
Frangokastello Venetian fortress	Kotsifou gorge small church	Kotsifou gorge church of Saint Nicolas
Melidoni: mountain containing cave	Melidoni cave	Melidoni cave

© Kees Hiddinga. Copying only with permission.

Back to the top of the page.