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  As from Monday, the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania presents the exhibition "Artists of Chania interpret the Tower of Babel". A group of artists from the Cretan city will use the whole building to present their visual work on the...

It all started back in 1914 and ever since, year after year, the Cretan city of Rethymno hosts a traditional carnival celebration like no other place in Greece. Over three weeks, the Cretan coastal city holds parties and masquerades with...

A Greek adventurer is half-way through his bid to to paddle 260 kilometers (160 miles) around Crete in a kayak. Manolis Loudaros, a passionate rower, set off from the southern tip of the Peloponnese on Jan. 1 and after crossing the islands...

  A Finnish family has cycled the breadth of Europe to soak up the sun on the Greek island of Crete. The Chanela family – William Chanela, his wife and three children aged eight, six and three – set off from...

Despite the marvelous Bollywood movies one can enjoy online, an Indian wedding is an unusual sight for a Greek. Apparently not so, though, for Leonidas Xylouris, a Cretan man who married his Indian sweetheart in her native country. Xylouris, son...

The island of Crete is the second-most popular island destination for German tourists after Majorca according to a survey by a leading German online platform. Pre-bookings for 2018 analyzed by Check 24 reveal that five of the 10 most-popular European...

Formula 1 racing may not have come to Greece yet but a recent slew of traffic convictions on the island of Crete -- over 1,400 in one weekend -- suggest dangerous driving is rampant on the Mediterranean island. Police figures...

Controversy has erupted after a pupil at the opening of an Albanian-medium school in Crete was pictured with a Tirana official wearing a t-shirt bearing a map that claims part of Greece for Albania. According to Cretan website FlashNews.gr the...

A veteran Greek windsurfing champion is showing he still has what it takes in a series of stunning photographs taken in Crete. Nikos Kaklamanakis, an Olympic gold medalist and three-time Mistral class windsurfing champion, posted images of himself battling the elements...

Cretans are well-known for their unique cultural habits and life-long customs. This time, a group of them decided to take their horses along with them to Sunday's rally in Thessaloniki against the use of "Macedonia" in the FYROM name...