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Gate of Agios Georgios
Charles Weber and the "charming chaos" of Heraklion
Charles Weber is Swiss but lives in Crete for the past 10 years more or…
Mrs. Bric and Mr. Brac
We first heard about their existence during their exhibition “Tatu Tabu” in Trito bar and…
Project: Chaos
Music, travel, sharing
Download for free the remixes of Lego boy's "Don’t Cry" by Liebe
Platia Strata
Gate with a View
A view from above, in a long lost Heraklion without cars and cement, with the…
Jordi Alsina Iglesias
From Argentona of Catalonia to Crete. A social anthropologist is impressed by the ‘phenomenon’ of…
Lakkos: the city’s former underground district
Many locals today pass by the narrow lanes of the district formerly known as "Lakkos"…
The German guy who loves Heraklion City (video)
And not only for its beautiful places, its culture and its well known hospitality of…
A feast of the commons in Heraklion!
Benches and tents lie on the ground dismantled and Georgiadis park gradually returns to its…
Gareth Owens & the secrets of the Disk of Phaistos
Every year on the 3rd of July you will find him enjoying a cup of…

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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"