Knossos is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and has been called Europe’s oldest city. Settled as early as the Neolithic period, the name Knossos survives from ancient Greek references to the major city of Crete. The palace of Knossos eventually became the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture.

The Palace of Nestor was an important center in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor’s kingdom of “sandy Pylos”.
The site is the best preserved Mycenaean Greek palace discovered. It was a two-storey building with store rooms, workshops, baths, light wells, reception rooms and a sewage system.

Founded in 1542, this monastery was built by fugitive monks of the Archontissa of Paros who sought asylum on the island of Mykonos in the place where there originally was an old church of The Virgin. In this area, today, the settlement of Ano Mera has developed.

Zagori, is a region and a municipality in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwestern Greece. It has an area of some 1,000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages known as Zagori villages (Zagorohoria). The Aoos river running north of Mt Tymphe forms the northern boundary, while the south-eastern side runs along the Varda river to Mount Mavrovouni (2,100m) near Metsovo.

The island of Spinalonga, has a Venetian Fortress that surrounds the area. From 1905 to 1957 the lepers of Greece lived in isolation on the Island and it was known as the island of the Living Dead. In 1970 Spinalonga was declared a protected archaeological site and today is considered one of the most important sights of Crete.