Chania Travel Guide
Chania
(Greece)This Chania travel guide includes all you need to know. Restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels, events, and much more. Read the guide below or download and print to take on your journey.
Contents: The City, Do & See, Cafés, Eating, Bars & Nightlife, Shopping, Sleeping, Essential Information
About This Travel Guide
Guide language: English
Updated: 2010-01-11
Format: PDF
File size: Approx. 4000kb / 4Mb
Guide language: English
Updated: 2010-01-11
Format: PDF
File size: Approx. 4000kb / 4Mb
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Chania
Chania (say “Hanya”) must be the loveliest port town in Greece. Swallows soar in sheer blue skies above the semicircle of tall Venetian houses around its picture-perfect Old Harbour. The tables of scores of bars and restaurants line the quayside. Behind the harbour front, narrow, traffic-free shopping lanes thread through the atmospheric Old Town. On either side of the town, sandy beaches stretch along the coast.
The City
Chania is Crete’s second largest town, and is the lively capital of the western half of this long, narrow Greek island. It’s very ancient: 4000 years ago Chania was called Cydonia. It preserves many handsome signs of a long history as a possession of Venice. The Old Town, alongside the Old Harbour, is enclosed by Venetian ramparts and guarded by a waterside Venetian fortress, Fort Firca.
The modern city centre, just outside the old ramparts, offers the energy and character of a vibrant, authentic Greek town. Here are numerous shops, bars, restaurants and street life that are fun to explore.
Chania is the focal point of western Crete’s coastline of small and charming beach resorts. Each resort has its own appeal, and all are just minutes from Chania by car or bus along the seashore highway which runs at the foot of high craggy peaks and rolling foothills green with olive groves. Read more about Chania:
The City, Do & See, Cafés, Eating, Bars & Nightlife, Shopping, Sleeping, Essential Information
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