Gournia is an archaeological site about 20 kilometers south of Agios Nikolaos, on the way to Ierapetra. It got its name from the Greek word gournes, which alludes to the little cisterns that were said to be used to feed the domestic animals and were found next to every old house. H. Boyd, an American archaeologist, studied the site in Read more…

Vassiliki is a significant Minoan archaeological site near the contemporary settlement of Vassiliki, on a small hill to the north of Ierapetra town. The archaeologists disagreed over the location of Vassiliki. At originally, this location was thought to be a Minoan palace. Modern archaeologists discovered, however, that Vassiliki was a community that went through a succession of building phases and Read more…