Crete is an ideal place to visit all year round. Its mild climate and its unique mountainous features attract visitors before and after the established tourist summer season. Crete’s stunning natural beauty awakens in visitors an imperative need to discover its mountains, its gorges, its paths. 1. VIRGIN BEACHES AND SEASCAPES There are more than […]
The Olive tree of Vouves (Greek: Ελιά Βουβών) is an olive tree in the village of Ano Vouves in the municipal unit of Kolymvari in Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Probably one of the oldest olive trees in the world, it still produces olives today.The exact age of the tree cannot be determined. The use […]
Frape and freddo top the list of ice drinks in Greece, as the tradition of drinking iced coffee all year round is something that the Greeks are proud of! The summer may be almost over, but this is not the case for the cold beverages that Greece offers you during these months. Not very famous […]
«April in Crete – what is it like?» We asked some Cretans and heard such responses: «It is green, bright, blue, sunny, warm. It has odor of grass, flowers, warmth and life. Mountains have 50 shades of green, and mach more than this are poppies, chamomiles, cornflowers, clover, many different yellow flowers. The trees and […]
The questions of our readers are answered by Booking Manager of company TheNewCrete. If we bought tickets or tour, when we need and can book a car? You can book a car at any time. Of course, early booking is always better. The closer to the high season, the higher the prices become. Therefore, if […]
Despite the Greeks celebrate Christmas together with Catholics on December 25; the date of Orthodox Easter always coincides in Russia and in Greece. Why? The fact is that all the nonmoving holidays (every year celebrated on the same days) are celebrated by the Greek Orthodox Church according to the new Gregorian calendar and the other […]
In spring Crete is covered with orange grovesin bloom, fresh greenery is on the slopes and in valleys, snow caps are still visible on Lefka Ori (White mountains), and clean air is filled with the scent of blooming mountain grass. Time of rains and bad weather has passed. Crete is sunny in March. There is […]
At the foothills of the sacred and highest mountain in Crete – Psiloritis stretches the verdant Amari valley surrounded by villages, endless olive groves, rare nature richness and 1642 aboriginal, nature-found kinds of flora. Goats and sheep are browsed on wild herbs and grass, drink water from spring and rest under apple and cherry trees […]
Getting to know the Greek feta cheese can start like this… You wake up in the morning in a room with whitewashed walls and wooden lattice shutters on the windows. Barefoot on the cool floor you go out on the balcony–and there it is, the sea! And yet the sky, the sun, it is not […]
The Olive tree of Vouves (Greek: Ελιά Βουβών) is an olive tree in the village of Ano Vouves in the municipal unit of Kolymvari in Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Probably one of the oldest olive trees in the world, it still produces olives today. The exact age of the tree cannot be determined. The […]
