Off the coast of Crete is a tiny island with a tumultuous past, and visitors can explore this history with a variety of tours ...

IT MIGHT be teeming with tourists now, but less than 50 years ago nobody wanted to set foot on this picturesque island. And, if their social media didn’t give it away, the vast majority of them ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Images show the picturesque Spinalonga Island, off the coast of Crete in Greece, now uninhabited with only the ruins left of its historic significance. Spinalonga island is located off the coast of ...

For decades after it was abandoned, not much was known about the Greek island of Spinalonga or its days as a leper colony – but all that is changing. I caught my first glimpse of Spinalonga four years ...

Ionian Weddings, the UK’s only Greek islands wedding specialists made an exciting exclusive addition to its Crete wedding locations portfolio today. Couples now have the unique opportunity to get ...

Many of the author’s novels are set in the Mediterranean (Picture: Loukianos Arnaoutakis) Victoria Hislop is a master at bringing the breathtaking islands and towns of Greece to life in the pages of ...

08:46, Sat, Jan 30, 2016 Updated: 18:24, Mon, Feb 8, 2016 Below us the Aegean sparkles and grows ever brighter as we descend toward the fishing village of Plaka. I can see the idyllic isle of ...

I am in a hill-top kafenion bar in north-eastern Crete. The heat is dry, and the light on the stones is the colour of straw. Cicadas are clicking their back legs together like knitting needles. Geckos ...