Chania

Chania is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania Prefecture and can be broken into two parts, the old town and the larger modern city. Chania is the site of the Minoan settlement the Greeks called Cydonia.We spent an afternoon in old town Chania, walking through the Venetian village and harbor. In spite of being bombed during World War II, to me, Chania was the most beautiful part of Crete. I found it interesting that though 97% of Greeks are Greek Orthodox, there still stands a mosque in the harbor left from the Ottoman Empire. My very favorite pictures of Crete are from the Venetican Harbor and Village. Walking in places such as the old town really reminds me how young America really is.











Down by the harbor there were Greek fisherman and one of them caught the most beatiful tiny fish and flipped it onto the sidewalk for me to take a photo of.