Tag: amazing_greece
Matala Beach Festival
Some of birds sing for freedom, some bird just fly away
– Locomodo, from the song 'o glaros'
Heraklion, Greece
"You poor man, you can move mountains, you can make miracles, but you sink in the shit, the laziness and infidelity. You've got a God inside you, you carry a God but you don't know it, you just realize it at the time you are dying but it's too late. So, all of us that know this, let's start and perhaps the others will hear us"
-N. Kazantzakis
Kokkinos Pirgos
67 kilometers South West of Heraklion there is this small village called Kokkinos Pirgos. The name translates to red castle and it is considered that the village got this name from an old tower that existed there and was made with red soil. If you are in its long and sandy beach you can see the two small uninhabited islands Paximadia which from this location they look as one island
Heraklion, Greece
The eleventh labour of Herakles was to steal the golden apples from the garden of Hesperides. The trees were a gift from Gaia to Hera and Zeus for their wedding and their golden fruits were able to give immortality to those that eat them. This garden was thought to be located at the Iberian peninsula where today Portugal is. That's why in modern Greek the golden apples or oranges are called with the word 'portokali' which means 'something from Portugal'
Heraklion, Greece
Zeus selected Aeolus to become the ruler of the winds and granted him with the power to calm or arouse all winds. When Odysseus visit the island of Aeolus and stayed there for a month, Aeolus placed all the winds in a bag and gave the bag to Odysseus letting free only the mild wind Zephyrus that help Odysseus to reach near Ithaca. The comrades of Odysseus thought that this bag was full of gold and when Odysseus fell asleep they open the bag and all the winds set free. Then a great storm went off and drive them away from Ithaca.
