Tourist information - Chania
Chania is a city of unique beauty, brimming with ample fragrant flowers, and boasting an excellent cultural heritage. In a tradition of hospitality, we welcome you to our website. Ancient and modern monuments, the Venician Habrour and the Old Town, colourful neighbourhoods, a traditional lifestyle along with the friendly residents warmly invite you on a step by step journey to become acquainted with the city, promising you exceptional moments.
The most poetic city of Crete, as you walk through it, leaves you with a pleasant taste of beauty. Established on the ruins of ancient Kidonia, it has seen and survived many invaders, but has also endured civilizations that left their marks on building faces, castles, walls, antiquities, monasteries and also churches.
The city has two entrances: the airport of Akrotiri, and the port of Souda (the largest in the Mediterranean). The public market holds a master place in the midst of the city, a remarkable cross-shaped building that was completed in 1913, and in proportion with the one in Marseilles.
Near the city center, the Public Garden awaits you next to the "Peace and Friendship of the people" park. The gardens are definitely the most beautiful in Crete, and also the public garden offers a small zoo with animals from Cretan fauna.
The Venetian port is as picturesque as any time and season as well as that attractive to visitors and locals, for its beauty and for its choices of entertainment for all tastes and demands. The old city "intramural" districts preserve their Venetian nobility. Narrow paved alleys are bounded with classy renewed houses, from various ages, are offered for a pleasant walk. A lot of neoclassic houses are also residing in districts which "neighbor" with the city of Chania, like Halepa.
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