The Island of Sunshine and Wellbeing
Crete, the largest and richest island of Greece, is not a place to just think about, to look at in travel magazines, or in the vacation pictures of friends. Crete is a wild reserve in the heart of the eastern Mediterranean, where the proud mountains gently embrace the velvet and lace waters, under an infinite clear sky. A treasure of the Earth, in gold, turquoise, and emerald colors, a holistic retreat, where the soul awakens and the body is filled with energy.
This island must be stepped on with bare feet, admired, tasted, smelled, listened to, savored, and embraced. It's the place where you breathe the aroma of wild herbs, eat the healthiest food on earth, and have more than 300 sunny days a year. It's a living, cheerful, and bright world, the space of adventure and multisensory experience of your inner child. It's a game of contrasts that merge, causing you a mosaic of emotions and impressions: antiquity and modernism, rustic and luxurious, perfection and anarchy, minimalism and abundance, tranquility, and exuberance, majestic peaks and smooth beaches, the eternal beauty of nature and the fragile greatness of people…
It is the land of inspiration for artists, the spiritual source from which the Renaissance painter and iconographer El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) drew his essence to immortalize in color his saints and his famous biblical scenes and the homeland of the romantic Odysseus Elytis (Odysseus Alepoudelis) - one of the greatest modern poets of Greece and laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is the place where the famous composer and lyricist Mikis Teodorakis - the author of Zorba's sirtaki that made the whole world dance in Greek style - chose to rest for eternity, alongside his parents and siblings.
Generous, charming, and captivating, the island of Crete encapsulates the essence of Hellas, the Greek soul itself. The brilliant Cretan writer and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis revealed his secret: "Whoever sets foot on this island feels a mysterious force that ramifies warmly and benevolently through his veins, and his soul begins to grow."
Crete is warm, authentic, and lively. A sunny island of well-being. A blessed piece of heaven and, once you know it, an endless love...
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