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EXPLORE: Highest position: 63 on Sunday, May 25, 2008
Just south of Siena is the intriguing and distinctive semi-desert landscape of the Crete, which break up the enchanting green landscape of this part of Tuscany. The Crete are geographical features of clay, harsh and wild, difficult to cultivate by anyone who is not an expert and who doesn't respect the laws of nature.
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Ladies are sitting together outside their houses, chatting and with hands always busy, the crochetwork gets sold in the shops of this artistic village of Kritza in Crete.
I do notice that it is 'older' generation..
I had 2 Nikon F4, one for mono and one for colour... those were the days my friends, LOL
Thank you, and have a super day, M, (*_*)
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Chania (Greek: Χανιά) is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about 70 km (43 mi) west of Rethymno and 145 km (90 mi) west of Heraklion.
The municipality has 108,642 inhabitants (2011). This consists of the city of Chania and several nearby areas, including Kounoupidiana (pop. 8,620), Mournies (pop. 7,614), Souda (pop. 6,418), Nerokouros (pop. 5,531), Daratsos (pop. 4,732), Perivolia (pop. 3,986), Galatas (pop. 3,166) and Aroni (pop. 3,003).
Chania is the site of the Minoan settlement the Greeks called Kydonia, the source of the word quince. It appears on Linear B as ku-do-ni-ja. Some notable archaeological evidence for the existence of this Minoan city below some parts of today's Chania was found by excavations in the district of Kasteli in the Old Town. This area appears to have been inhabited since the Neolithic era. The city reemerged after the end of the Minoan period as an important city-state in Classical Greece, one whose domain extended from Chania Bay to the feet of the White Mountains. The first major wave of settlers from mainland Greece was by the Dorian Greeks who came around 1100 BC. Kydonia was constantly at war with other Cretan city-states such as Aptera, Phalasarna and Polyrrinia and was important enough for the Kydonians to be mentioned in Homer's Odyssey (xix.200). In 69 BC, the Roman consul Caecilius Metellus defeated the Cretans and conquered Kydonia to which he granted the privileges of an independent city-state. Kydonia reserved the right to mint its own coins until the 3rd century AD.
The Lassithi Plateau is located at an altitude of about 800 metres in the interior of Crete, southeast of Iraklion and west of Agios Nikolaos. The plateau is largely surrounded by the Dikti Mountains, with Mount Selena in the north and the Dikti in the south. Lassithi is known for its hundreds of small historical windmills. The historical function of the windmills is to pump water, but of the many mills only a few are still working.
Old Venetian Harbour / Παλιό Ενετικό Λιμάνι - Chania / Χανιά - Crete - Greece