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| Museum of Cretan Ethnology |
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The Museum of Cretan Ethnology is situated 2 km from the Minoan palace of Phaestos, in the traditional settlement of Voroi. The exhibition was inaugurated in 1988 and was awarded a prize in 1992 by the Council of Europe. The exhibition, which is based on the museological model of G. |
| El Greco - Dominkos Theotokopoulos |
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Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was born in Fodele, a village near Iraklion in the island of Crete, about 1541. He grew up in an idyllic surrounding, a ravine through which a river runs among groves and huge planes.
In such an environment his character and his artistic ideas formed. |
| Psiloritis Mountain |
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Mount Psiloritis is a mystical place. It has a rare ecology. It has a particularly interesting geological formation. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty. It is an historical place of great cultural value and weight. It is a symbol, the symbol of Crete, of manliness, of freedom. |
| Nikos Kazantzakis |
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One of the most important Greek writers, poets and philosophers of the 20th century, was born in Iraklion in 1883. In 1906 he graduated from the Athens Law School and continued his studies in Paris (1907-1909). During the Balkan Wars he fought as a volunteer in the Greek Army. |
| Monastery of ARKADI |
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Due to the holocaust it suffered in 1866, this has become the island s most famous monastery. It lies on a low plateau, 23 kilometres from the town of Rethymno.
Built during the last Venetian period, it consists of a large set of fortress-like buildings. |
| Hippies History |
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According to Websters dictionary (2003) a "hippie" or "hippy" is: "a young person of the 1960 who rejected established social mores, advocated spontaneity, free expression of love and the expansion of consciousness, often wore long hair and unconventional clothes, and used psychedelic drugs". |
| A story from Joni Mitchell by Rolling Stone in early 1971 |
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The following was spoken by Joni Mitchell before she played "Carey" at the Troubadour in mid-Novermber 1971 (transcribed from the tape by Kakki).
"It was a very small bay with cliffs on two sides. And between the two cliffs, on the beach, there were about four or five small buildings. |
| Creta History |
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Sir Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos, named this age after the mythological ruler of Knossos, King Minos. This period lasted for about 1,500 years and included the "Golden Age" of Crete.
The Minoans ruled not only Crete but other Aegean Islands and various cities on the mainland. |
| Samarias Gorge |
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Samaria Gorge is one of the National Parks of Greece and the only one in Crete. It starts at an altitude of 1227 m. at Xyloskalo near the village of Omalos(70 Km. from Hania) and ends after an 18 km walk to the beach at the village of Agia Roumeli on the south coast of Crete. |
| Caretta caretta |
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is the only species of Mediterranean sea-turtles that nests in Greece. Sea turtles are reputed to be strongly philopatric, and always return to the same beach they were born on to lay their own eggs. Nesting beaches in Greece are located in Zakynthos, Peloponnese and Crete. |
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