Living TRAVEL - GREECE - 1975

Crete
 


Irakleion (capital of Crete)
 

View from the balcony of our hotel in Irakleion
 

Margarites - a pottery village in Crete
   

   
    

   

 

 

 


A very large updraught kiln

A Museum Piece - the Minoan "Boxing Boys"
   


This Minoan Fresco was unearthed in the Bronze Age town of Akrotiri, situated on the island of Thera, now known as Santorini, just north of Crete. The town of Akrotiri was buried suddenly, around 1,540 BCE, in a huge volcanic eruption


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