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Atina - Αριστον λομποτεση - Ariston Lombotesi 

Archanes, Crete - Myrro artisan skin care

Girit - Petassos Travel -Agency of Sustainable Tourism

Malotira is an endemic plant of Crete; it does not grow anywhere else in the world.

Venetian conquerors were introduced to the medicinal herb, they named it Malotira after the Latin words male (illness) and tirare (drag, push away)

"Ploumi" is also seven kilometers from Houdetsi, the home of musical workshop"Labyrinth" , which has become a world renowned center for studying near eastern modal music traditions,

Archanes is the place of a thriving community of musicians, artists, artisans, ecological builders, and community workers

girittee collective kitchen in the cooperative coffee place Ortakia in Heraklion

Nikos Xylouris - νίκος ξυλούρης, ψαραντωνης, ψαρογιωργης

Laskarina Bouboulina, a female Greek captain who had fought against the Ottoman Empire during the Greek War of Independence

Lela Karagianni Greek resistance leader during World War II.

Axis Occupation of Greece/ Occupation of Greece by Germany, Italy and Bulgaria

Knossos ancient city has been inhabited from the Neolithic period (7000-3000 BC) until the 5th c. AD 

myth of the Labyrinth with the Minotaur

the story of Daidalos and Ikaros

Pre-palatial period (3000-1900 BC)

after 1450 BC, Mycenaeans established themselves at Knossos

finds from the palace, art, pottery, vessels, figurines, the archive of Linear B tablets and the original wall-paintings are all housed in Herakleion Archaeological Museum

The hill of Kolonos Agoraios is dominated by the classical temple dedicated to Hephaestus and Athena Ergane. 

Athenian Agora was destroyed by Persians (480BC) Romans under Sulla (86BC), Herulians(267 AD) and Slavs (580AD) 

In the 10th century, a Byzantine neighborhood grew up in the Agora area, and the Church of the Holy Apostles was built.