Location

Endless beaches and high mountains, beautiful plateaus and famous canyons, quiet villages and intense nightlife are some of the diverse characteristics that create the scenery of Platanias Municipality. It is indeed the synthesis of these contradictions and diversity that, strangely, form a perfectly harmonious environment for a holiday break. Whether you are traveling alone or with friends, with your family or your significant other half, whether you are looking for a quiet, peaceful break from reality or an intense party holiday, whether you are a nature lover or passionate with history and culture, Platanias can be an ideal holiday destination for you.

The village of Platanias is becoming, the center of tourism in the wider Western Crete region, during the last decades. The number and the quality of options, as far as accommodation and infrastructure is concerned, make Platanias a comprehensive and autonomous holiday destination. The best part is that some days, when you wake up and feel this pleasant holiday laziness, you don’t need to move from your base. The village of Platanias has excellent restaurants and taverns, emphasizing on cretan cuisine and local products, cultivated in the area, beautiful beaches that offer all amenities, an intense night life and last but not least the old village which hangs from the slope, overlooking the sea and the dazzling colors of the landscape throughout the day…

The most poetic city of Crete leaves you with a pleasant taste of beauty when you walk through it. Built on the ruins of ancient Kydonia, the city of Chania survived many invaders and you can see the marks of civilizations whose fingerprints appears on facades of buildings, castles, walls, antiquities, monasteries and churches. The city has two entrances: the airport of Akrotiri and the harbor of Souda (the largest in the Mediterranean). Dominant position in the city center holds the municipal market, a remarkable building in crisscross pattern that was completed in 1913 with the standard analogue of Marseille.

The Venetian harbor, breathtaking any time of the year, is a pole of attraction for visitors and locals, both for its beauty and for the choices of entertainment. The surrounding neighborhoods of the old city “intramurals”, maintain their Venetian nobility; the narrow paved alleys are surrounded by tasteful renewed houses of various ages, offered for a pleasant walk. There are also many neoclassical buildings placed in districts next to the city of Chania, like Halepa. In a walking distance from the city center awaits the public garden and next to it the Park of peace and friendship between peoples, the prettiest garden in Crete!

Land of Daidalos and Ikaros. Of Minoan vases and famous frescoes. Shining and starlit, with its black baggy breeches and fringed kerchiefs. Romantic Crete, with its sea, rocks and gleaming plateaus. Crete, land of full-bodied wine and pungent tsipouro. “Sleepless Crete, land of endless feasts under star-studded skies”, scented with wild fennel and fresh basil. Dizzying Crete, of the warlike dances.

The morphology, geography and the climate make for an idyllic land where nature’s balance reigns and monotony is conspicuous only by its absence. It combines the tall, unscalable and harsh mountain ranges with the fertile plains, the large ports with the quaint bays, the bustling north with the serene south, the peninsula with the sea, the snow and the rain with the abundant sunlight. A land which could indisputably be characterized as “the island of the Makares” or “paradise” according to the ancient Greeks.