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Farmers and livestock breeders in Crete are blocking roads in Chania, Rethymno, and Heraklion, demanding state support to survive.

The Association of Tourist and Travel Agencies of Crete warns that new farmer protests could block airports, ports, and roads, endangering the island’s tourism season.

In Crete, pomegranates symbolize luck, fertility, and abundance. At New Year’s, families smash the fruit at their doorstep to welcome prosperity and joy.

Gunfire has been part of Cretan celebration for as long as the island has had guns to shoot.

In Crete, celebration is never quiet. Weddings, baptisms, football victories, national holidays — and sometimes no reason at all — end with a sky full of fire.

In Crete, rain is never taken for granted. When it falls, the island listens — and saves every drop.

A 14-year-old German boy who nearly drowned at Kokkini Hani beach in Heraklion is now recovering at PAGNI’s Pediatric Surgery ward after leaving the ICU,

Rain in Crete is rare, but when it comes, it awakens the island’s scents, olive groves, and hidden memories.

Greece remains shaken by the case of little Matilda, the three-year-old British girl found unconscious in a Rhodes hotel po

Walk through any Cretan street with your ears open and you will hear them before you see them: those tiny, impossible voices, cutting through traffic, arguments, and mopeds. Every neighborhood has them. The canaries are louder than the television, more regular than the church bell, and far more reliable than the local bus schedule. You […]

34 dreamy Aegean islands, from Santorini to Symi, want to charge day-trippers a new “entry fee.”