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Lasithi Plateau

Crete Reconnaissance: At the Altar of Zeus

2018-04-19 by Phil Butler

Lasithi

We finally took the opportunity to drive to one of Crete’s most fascinating places this week. The Lasithi Plateau, located in the Lasithi regional unit in eastern Crete, Greece is famous today for the thousands of windmills that once irrigated the fertile soils of the plateau.

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