Paleochora Sitting a little over 40 miles south of Chania on Crete's southwestern coast, the small port town of Paleochora offers sanctuary from Chania's city life. Surrounded on all sides by ...

From fishing villages in North America to clifftop towns in Europe, join us on an armchair tour around the world's most beautiful coastal towns and villages.

More recent archaeological digs have demonstrated that Crete was widely urbanized during this period and that Knossos exercised some kind of hegemony over other Cretan cities. The mid-second ...

The best way to get around Crete is via car. There are public buses that connect visitors to the major cities of Heraklion, Rethymnon, Chania and Agios Nikolaos. There are also a few lines that ...

Nestled about an hour east of Crete's Heraklion airport lies the sleepy town of Elounda. More of a coastal village, really, it's stretched out around a quiet, sweeping bay, protected from the wind ...

Outrage after Greek police release drunk driver later involved in death crash on tourist island - Crete is notorious for road ...

Greek authorities said Thursday they had found 66 migrants in two locations on the southern Greek island of Crete who had sailed to the island from the Libyan coast in north Africa, a route ...

CRETE, Greece — When my Greek-American friend Mano Katsompenakis invited me and my family to his summer home in Crete, we didn’t bother with much research. We just said yes. To be honest, I ...