Guidebook for Iraklio
Food Scene
Cretan cuisine in a beautiful original cretan environment. If you visit summer months try and sit outside in small narrow street tables. The hole concept is around Cretan diet and culture so you will be served only original recipes of cretan food.
264 yerel halk öneriyor
Peskesi
6-8 Kapetan CharalampiCretan cuisine in a beautiful original cretan environment. If you visit summer months try and sit outside in small narrow street tables. The hole concept is around Cretan diet and culture so you will be served only original recipes of cretan food.
A very small place, in the summer you can sit outside in a small “square” very nice cuisine. We have enjoyed many good meals there.
13 yerel halk öneriyor
Prassin Aloga
21 KidoniasA very small place, in the summer you can sit outside in a small “square” very nice cuisine. We have enjoyed many good meals there.
Seafood and Seaview served in your plate. Please note that you can not reserve a table.
93 yerel halk öneriyor
Ippokampos
3 Leof. Sofokli VenizelouSeafood and Seaview served in your plate. Please note that you can not reserve a table.
Kouzeineri.
If what you crave is a broad selection of high quality beef-cuts, accompanied by one the city's most comprehensive wine cards, is your craving, then look no further.
61 yerel halk öneriyor
Kouzineri
& EvropisKouzeineri.
If what you crave is a broad selection of high quality beef-cuts, accompanied by one the city's most comprehensive wine cards, is your craving, then look no further.
Is a very cosy cafe located beside a small park. It offers scrumptious breakfast and a very good coffee.
55 yerel halk öneriyor
Crop
street AretousasIs a very cosy cafe located beside a small park. It offers scrumptious breakfast and a very good coffee.
Our favourite chef in Heraklion at extremely reasonable prices.
Only wish the place had a tasting menu, so you could enjoy more flavours, the servings are very generous. You will need a solid appetite to finish a starter and a main course.
36 yerel halk öneriyor
Apiri greek_eatery
KagiampiOur favourite chef in Heraklion at extremely reasonable prices.
Only wish the place had a tasting menu, so you could enjoy more flavours, the servings are very generous. You will need a solid appetite to finish a starter and a main course.
Drinks & Nightlife
Halavro used to be a ruined old cretan house in a very central spot of the city. Nowadays it has become a roofless, cozy spot with great atmosphere and nice music and cocktails. It is open all the summer months.
94 yerel halk öneriyor
Xalavro Open Bar
10 MilatouHalavro used to be a ruined old cretan house in a very central spot of the city. Nowadays it has become a roofless, cozy spot with great atmosphere and nice music and cocktails. It is open all the summer months.
Sightseeing
The centre of Minoan civilisation and capital of Minoan Crete.
Knossos flourished for approximately two thousand years. It had large palace buildings, extensive workshop installations and luxurious rock-cut cave and tholos tombs. As a major centre of trade and the economy, Knossos maintained ties with the majority of cities in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Wealth accumulation and the advancement of an urban lifestyle were the hallmarks of this zenith, which began circa 2000 BC and was typified by magnificent monumental buildings and a complex social structure.
The Minoan palace is the main site of interest at Knossos, an important city in antiquity, which was inhabited continuously from the
227 yerel halk öneriyor
Knossos Minoan Sarayı
8 ΦειδίουThe centre of Minoan civilisation and capital of Minoan Crete.
Knossos flourished for approximately two thousand years. It had large palace buildings, extensive workshop installations and luxurious rock-cut cave and tholos tombs. As a major centre of trade and the economy, Knossos maintained ties with the majority of cities in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Wealth accumulation and the advancement of an urban lifestyle were the hallmarks of this zenith, which began circa 2000 BC and was typified by magnificent monumental buildings and a complex social structure.
The Minoan palace is the main site of interest at Knossos, an important city in antiquity, which was inhabited continuously from the
Visit the citys’ old harbour and have a walk or even enter the Venetian Fortress called Koules.
You will also see many locals that enjoy walking on the 3 km mole that is located beside.
248 yerel halk öneriyor
Rocca a Mare Kalesi
Visit the citys’ old harbour and have a walk or even enter the Venetian Fortress called Koules.
You will also see many locals that enjoy walking on the 3 km mole that is located beside.
The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is regarded as one of Europe''s most important museums.
The museum brings together archaeological finds from all over Crete, covering over 5500 years of the island''s history. Pride of place is given to the treasures of Minoan civilisation, the entire historical course of which can thus be appreciated. Justly regarded as the home of Minoan civilisation par excellence, the museum houses the most important collection of Minoan antiquities the world over.
474 yerel halk öneriyor
Heraklion Arkeoloji Müzesi
1 ChatzidakiThe Heraklion Archaeological Museum is regarded as one of Europe''s most important museums.
The museum brings together archaeological finds from all over Crete, covering over 5500 years of the island''s history. Pride of place is given to the treasures of Minoan civilisation, the entire historical course of which can thus be appreciated. Justly regarded as the home of Minoan civilisation par excellence, the museum houses the most important collection of Minoan antiquities the world over.