Lasithi Plain Attractions

30-40km/20-25mi west of Áyios Nikólaos is the fertile karstic plateau of Lasíthi (alt. 850m/2,790ft), with the 12,000 windmills (now increasingly going out of use) which irrigate the plain and have earned it the name of the Valley of Windmills.

Petras, Greece

The small seaside village of Petrás was founded on the ruins of a Minoan city. The settlement is dated to between 2600-2300 B.C., with habitation continuing through to 1450 B.C.

Psykhro - Dictaean Stalactitic Cave, Greece

On the southwestern edge of the plateau of the Lasíthi plain, at the village of Psykhró, is the stalactitic Dictaean Cave (Diktaíon Ántron) in which Zeus was believed to have been born.

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