The best time to visit Crete is from mid-May to June or from September to October. May brings with it warmer waters and beautiful wildflowers that can be spotted throughout the island's natural ...

Don't expect any Caesar salads here — Cretan cuisine bears very little resemblance to Olive Garden. In fact, food on Crete often doesn't even resemble food on mainland Greece. Feta, a Greek staple ...

From October 27 to November 7, filming is scheduled to take place at Chania for the new feature film, Xanastavronetai (Recrucified). Credit: Greek Reporter The Venetian Harbor of Chania is set to be ...

A British couple’s all-inclusive holiday in Crete turned into what they described as a “holiday from hell”, after claiming that the food served at their four-star hotel “looked like dog food” and that ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was recorded at 6:55 a.m. on Friday, approximately 290 kilometers south of Athens, according to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens. The quake’s ...

A shooting in the village of Vorizia on the Greek island of Crete resulted in two deaths and at least 10 injuries, stemming from a family vendetta. Police are investigating the attack, which followed ...

The monumental architectural complex uncovered at Kastelli, Crete. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have presented the preliminary results of the ongoing excavation on Papoura Hill on ...

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Talos was the sun god of Crete and was supposedly constructed of bronze. A single vein, starting from his neck and running down to his ankles, carried his life-blood — liquid metal — and upon each ...