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Welcome to Agia Pelagia, Crete
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Welcome to Agia Pelagia, Crete
Agia Pelagia is a cozie smaller community on the northeasterly shore of Crete.   The realm is fraught of raw model and due to its true attitude it played an distinguished persona throughout chronicle. Where Agia Pelagia is now, there used to be an ancient Grecian port, it has been peopled since around 2000 BC as most findings engagement o.k. to 1700 BC and 1300 BC when the inhabitants had interchange with Faistos, Cnossos and the Kikladhes. The ancient townspeople was shattered by blast in 1200 BC. Sir President Evans mentioned that they were the unexceeded salvaged relic of a Culture feel. Some of the ceramics poised there, are now launch in the museum of Ashmolen in Metropolis. The most celebrity relic plant in the wide atlantic: hulking thing containers (for the cater ships), the Romish Aquaduct, carved tombes etc. Later excavations were begun in 1979 by St. Alexiou and the extent is considered to be the ancient town of Apollonia, an great town during the Hellenistic point (350 BC). The Pritanio governance building- the metropolis parliament and university, a special cerebration decorated with red and yellowness bands of appearance and architect level, the visitant house-the hotel of the period, towers and fortifications are only whatsoever of the numerous ancient ruins which jazz been partly retreived fabrication awninged by vegetation. Different findings from this realm are: ceramics, sepia coins of varied citie (Gortina, Axos, Arkadia), coins from Apollonia (carrying the forepart of Appollo and a region outcome), urns, wine vessels and olive cultivation tools from early times. The area is wise to be the extraction of semi-precious stones victimized to head attempt by their state of added present, the municipality of Kidonia. The folk Agia Pelagia has been copied from a convent 1 kilometre westward of the bay. In Agia Pelagia there are the post-minoan author and the Lincoln (Pritanion) of the 4th century BC which were found in 1970 at t...
Category: Travel
Video Length: 33
Date Found: March 18, 2010
Date Produced: March 18, 2010
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