The city of Heraklion Heraklion is the capital city of Crete and is the fifth largest city in Greece after Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraeus and Patras.
Its population amounts to approximately 140,000 residents, according to the 2001 census. It is one of the most attractive cities in the Mediterranean due to its geogr...
Dafnoula Set between two raging streams, Kelado and Nalifo, choked with bulrushes, pine trees and sweet bays, the township of Dafnoulas (little sweet bay) took root just like its namesake and stayed put since the time of the Orlov uprising in 1770.
It was a region inhabited centuries before as Roman baths i...
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Heraklion is the capital city of Crete and is the fifth largest city in Greece after Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraeus and Patras.