Location: Agia Galini in Greece
Nearest Airport:
Heraklion or Chania at 80
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Nearest Ferry:
Heraklion or Souda Bay at 80
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Nearest Beach:
beach at 3.0
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Car: necessary
Just outside Ag Galini, a beautiful small harbour on the south side of Crete, Villa Eleni is well placed to visit local historical sites of Faestos, Ag Triada, Matala, Gortys and the town of Spili. The local town has facilities to rent cars, bikes and boat trips along the coast, or to view dolphins.
There is plentiful shopping in Ag Galini which has bars, restaurants and a beach. Local beaches also include Pavlos, Ag Gorgios, Matala, Komos and Triopterra and also some not marked on any map! Tours to the Samaria Gorge and to Knossos can be booked in the town at many tourist offices. The town also has a post office, chemists, a doctors surgery and statues to Icarus and Daedelus. For the summer of 2009 there is a sailing school set up run by an English couple, and it is planned to have a diving school also in 2009.
Just south of Psiloritis, the highest mountain in Crete (which remains snow covered well into May), Villa Eleni is well placed for relaxing away from mass tourism.