The Palace of Knossos Heraklion

Our last day in Crete. Although we had agreed to leave by 10:00, we were all up quite early and left the villa sometime after 09:00. Scott, thankfully, had walked down the hill and rescued the car from where we had to abandon it the night before.

As we had plenty of time before we needed to het to the airport, we decided to visit …

Friday morning we had breakfast scheduled at 630/7, which basically consisted of bread and coffee. Greece.

We left the ferry and got onto the bus, which took us to Knossos. It was really amazing to be seeing both the site and the reconstructions of Sir Arthur Evans. I've always loved learning about Minoan culture and artifacts, so it was …

Entry containing 12 photos titled: Crete's Countryside, Boutari Wine Tasting, Boutari, Boutari Winery, Grapes, Palace of Knossos

Jasmine here! First of all, turns out this website is kind of lame. I chose it because it has that nifty thing where it'll show your travel path on the map and auto fill locations, but in terms of easy editing powers it is severely limited (in case you couldn't already tell from the very awkward placement of photos. It'll let you edit the html, but …

... from their old building to a brand new building. The "King with Lily Crown" is a very famous fresco found at the palace of Knossos, and is an iconic symbol of Minoan archaeology. Unfortunately, Indy told us, the fresco has been reconstructed from the ...

... is due to leave at 3pm so this would give us a good few hours ashore. One of the highlights would be a trip to the Palace of Knossos believed to be a staggering 3,700 years old and built by the Minoans. Legend has it that the mythological Minotaur, half ...

... to their sun god being bull-like or the civilisation being bull worshiping. The many corridors and rooms at the palace of Knossos are marked with bull horns though an actual labyrinth on Crete has never been found, maybe the unsymmetrical and ...

... across the Aegean Sea from Athens to the island of Crete.  We arrived at the airport in Heraklion. We took a bus to the Palace of Knossos, built in 1900 BC, destroyed by an earthquake and rebuilt in 1700 BC.  In 1899, Sir Arthur ...

... sea was eventually named after him).             The second story that has its roots at the palace of Knossos is the story of Theseus and the minotaur.  King Minos and the Minoan people thought that the bull was a ...

Today we had arrived at the island of Crete. I chose the palace of Knossos tour. This left the boat early, so I had to get up early, have breakfast and be at the palace theatre by 7.15am. There were only three people doing this tour. Myself, Kyle and ...

... so had a very pleasant lunch sitting under olive trees just outside the palace. According to wikipedia's entry on the Palace of Knossos "The palace was excavated and partially restored under the direction of Arthur Evans in the earliest years of the ...

... .  Clean as a whistle and pretty new.  The driver took us the long way up in the hills to the Palace of Knossos. The hills are just lovely, all covered with fruit orchards, olive trees and vineyards. As we entered the Palace site, we hired a ...