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A walk on the Venetian walls of Heraklion
The Venetian walls of Heraklion surround the old city, Chandax. What most people don’t know…
Posing in front of the city walls
Summer cinema in the bastion of Bethlehem
An open cinema within the Venetian walls: our summer addiction
Project: Chaos
Lakkos: the city’s former underground district
Many locals today pass by the narrow lanes of the district formerly known as "Lakkos"…
100+1 years
Charles Weber and the "charming chaos" of Heraklion
Charles Weber is Swiss but lives in Crete for the past 10 years more or…
Georgia Petrali
One of the most restless spirits of the city that always finds new ways to…
Dan Perjovschi, timelessness, ephemerality and "Mesogeios"
Dan Perjovschi is an artist whose work has been exhibited in the most important Biennale…
A feast of the commons in Heraklion!
Benches and tents lie on the ground dismantled and Georgiadis park gradually returns to its…
Platia Strata
Music, travel, sharing
Download for free the remixes of Lego boy's "Don’t Cry" by Liebe

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Katina, Lakkos district, Heraklion

Katina (Lakkos, Heraklion)

Published in "Humans of Crete"

A short documentary about George, a shepherd on Asterousia Mountains

The Shepherd of Asterousia

Published in "Cretan Tales"

The isle of Zeus across Iraklion

Dia* on the canvas

Published in "Snapshot"

Golden hour, in the vineyards of Archanes

Golden hour

Published in "Snapshot"

Farewell August

Farewell August

Published in "Snapshot"

Beyiri is situated on the pedestrian street under Fortezza fortress

"Beyiri", a cooperative grocery store in Rethymno

Published in "Cretan Tales"

‘Self-organization’, ‘autonomy’, ‘horizontal structure’...these terms we hear more and more often in Greece inspired a group of young people in Rethymno to create ‘Beyiri’, a…

Somewhere on a dry slope of Asterousia mountains

Whoever saw a lonely tree...

Published in "Snapshot"

A spongy wallpaper in the sea of Sitia

Underwater chromotherapy

Published in "Snapshot"