Gortyna

Thursday 9/29 Zorbita the talking GPS guided us out of Iraklion heading south.  Our first stop was Gortyna.  Crete was home to some early inhabitants in the neo-lithic (new stone age) that progressed to the Minoans in the bronze age.  ...

We are greeted as we step off the bus by the sound off bleating sheep. There are more sheep in Greece than there are people. Gortyna was the capital of the Roman province of Crete and Libya (can you believe how close to Africa we are?!?), so it was an ...

... symbols spiraling out from the centre. No one has deciphered its meaning. A short way down the road brought us to Gortyna (Gortys), another famous ruin, and former capital of the Roman province of Crete, as well as north Africa. Other than ...