Crete – A cultural tour

🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 Day 1 Arrived in the evening by a Chattered Flight and then transported to Rethimno Mare hotel in Skaleta.         Day 2 This day is planned for sight seeing in and around Rethimno. Our first stop was Eleftherna Museum . The " Museum of ancient Eleutherna - Homer in Crete" , was created to accommodate the results of the excavations carried out for thirty years in the ancient city .​ We spent about 1 hour there and then departed for Monastery Akradi.  We then visited Rethimno…

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Bar

🇲🇪 🇲🇪 🇲🇪 ... continued from "Train from Belgrade to Bar" Train journey was quite long and we reached bar at about 8 in the morning. Bar is pretty little touristic town with Mediterranean climate. This town was inhabited from ancient times. There are findings from Neolithic era. Old part of the town (Stari Bar) still has the remains of the fortress which is a great landmark of Byzantine empire. The city was largely destroyed in WW II an since rebuilt. It was again destroyed completely in an earthquake in 1979 and then again rebuilt.…

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