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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your seven-day Crete itinerary will be filled with visits to sandy beaches, crystal blue waters, and picture-perfect towns flanked by white mountains and rolling hills of olive groves. Greece’s ...

Crete stretches some 300 kilometres from Chania’s Venetian harbour and beach-lined suburbs in the west, to the relatively little-visited region surrounding the seaside town of Sitia in the east.

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 ...