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The island of Crete is a crossroads of cultures and peoples, the heir to the Minoan, Greek and Byzantine civilizations, located at the border of three parts of the world - Europe, Asia and Africa, and washed by three seas at once - the Cretan, Ionian and Libyan seas. According to Greek myths, Crete was the birthplace of Zeus, ruler of the Olympic gods, the home of the Minotaur, the labyrinth for which Daedalus built, and the place where Theseus held onto Ariadne's thread. The Turks, the Venetians and the Arabs once owned these places: mosques, fortresses and monasteries from different eras peacefully neighbor one another on the island.
Crete is a real island of records. It is the largest and the most southerly island of Greece, as well as the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It has the longest gorge in Europe and its azure waters bathe some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, most of them Blue Flag ecologically clean.
The island of Crete stretches from west to east for 260 kilometers and from north to south it varies in width from 12 to 50 kilometers. The island is dominated by mountains, the highest of which is considered to be Ida (2 457 meters). Mountain ranges are dissected by canyons, and the valleys are covered with vineyards, olive, orange and date groves. Crete is famous for the great number of caves with stalactites and stalagmites - there are over three thousand of them.
